Awards recognise outstanding resources for student learning
September 5, 2019
Australian educators and publishers last night celebrated a year of making outstanding resources for student learning across the country at the Educational Publishing Awards Australia. Twenty vital learning tools produced by local publishers and used in primary, secondary and tertiary classrooms were awarded – as well as Publisher of the Year awards.
Two new awards were presented this year at The Arts Centre, Melbourne. The Scholarly Non-Fiction award, for a work that serves the education market, had 34 nominations and five shortlisted, with Charles Massey’s agriculture-meets-ecology tome Call of the Reed Warbler (University of Queensland Press) taking out the inaugural prize. Using his personal experience from a chemical-using farmer to a radical ecologist the judges said, “Call of the Reed Warbler exemplifies the potential of research-based writing to speak beyond the academy, enriching public discussion and, without question, the lives of its readers.”
The second new award was made in honour of Professor Mike Horsley, who co-founded the EPAAs in 1994. The award is for dedication to the educational publishing sector and was awarded to Firefly Education’s Peter Stannard, who has been serving the sector for 50 years.
Firefly Education had a good night with three trophies, including one for most outstanding primary resource for Sound Waves Foundation. The judges said this resource was innovative in harnessing sound searches and bespoke images to help students use sound for literacy development.
Other outstanding winning resources were Poems to Share II produced by AATE (Australian Association for the Teaching of English) and Red Room Poetry for secondary students, and the Clinical Placement Manual for the Diploma of Nursing 1e by Catherine Joustra and Ali Moloney, published by Cengage.
The judges considered Poems to Share II a uniquely designed box set of cards and praised the use of creative writing works from students alongside teachers and established poets. Judges also commented that Clinical Placement Manual for the Diploma of Nursing 1e is well-designed for student self-assessment in that its Work Experience tool practically supports students’ work placements.
For the second year in a row, the Copyright Agency-sponsored Publisher of the Year awards, which are voted for by educators, were awarded to PLD Literacy (Primary) and Oxford University Press (Secondary). Scroll down for the complete list of award-winners.
Diana Rigg from PLD. Photo: Sue Nelson
Educational Publishing Awards Australia 2019
Award Winners List
Category: Primary
- Adaptations, Student or Teaching Resource
WINNER: Oxford Reading Buddy
Various authors, Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
- Student Resource – Arts/Science/Humanities/Social Sciences/Technologies/Health and Physical Education/Languages
WINNER: Australian Backyard Earth Scientist
Peter Macinnis, National Library of Australia (NLA Publishing)
- Student Resource – English (Literacy/Literature/Language)
WINNER: Talk About Texts
Julie Baillie et al, Macmillan Education Australia
Highly Commended: Oxford Reading for Comprehension
Carmel Reilly, Holly Harper, Cameron Macintosh et al.
Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
- Student Resource – Mathematics (Numeracy)
WINNER: Think Mentals Digital Classroom
Chris Linthorne, Sandra Williams, Peter Williams
Firefly Education Pty Ltd
- Primary Teaching Resource
WINNER: Sound Waves Foundation Teacher Book and Foundation Online and Student Book
Barbara Murray, Terri Watson
Firefly Education Pty Ltd
Highly Commended: Informative Writing Manual
Beverley Laing
Highlighting Writing Pty Ltd trading as ‘Seven Steps to Writing Success’
- Reference Resource
WINNER: The Alphabetic Principle and Beyond: Surveying the Landscape
Robyn Cox, Susan Feez, Lorraine Beveridge
Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA)
- Educational Picture or Chapter Book
WINNER: Through My Eyes: Natural Disaster Zones (series)
Lyn White (series editor), Wai Chim, Zoe Daniel et al.
Allen & Unwin
Highly Commended: Waves
Donna Rawlins, Mark Jackson, Heather Potter
Walker Books Australia
Category: Secondary
- Student Resource – Junior – English/Humanities/Languages/Arts/Technologies/Health and Physical Education
WINNER: Pearson Humanities Victoria 7-10
Grant Kleeman, Peter Byrne, Sharon Szczecinski et al.
Pearson Australia
- Student Resource – Senior – Mathematics/Science
WINNER: Chemistry for Queensland Units 1&2 Student book + obook assess
Krystle Kuipers, Paul Keillor, Philip Sharpe et al.
Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
- Student Resource – Senior – English/Humanities/Languages/Arts/Technologies/Health and Physical Education
WINNER: Physical Education for Queensland Units 1&2 2e Student book + obook assess
Crystal Hede, Kate Russell, Ron Weatherby et al.
Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
Highly Commended: Global Interactions
Grant Kleeman, David Hamper, Helen Rhodes
Pearson Australia
- Secondary Teaching Resource
WINNER: Poems to Share II
AATE and Red Room Poetry
- Reference Resource
WINNER: Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary
Mark Gwynn, Amanda Laugesen
Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
Category: Tertiary and TAFE
- NEW AWARD: Scholarly Non-Fiction Book of the Year
WINNER: Call of the Reed Warbler
Charles Massy
University of Queensland Press
- Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning – print
WINNER: Learning through Play: Creating a Play Based Approach within Early Childhood Contexts
Christine Robinson, Tracy Treasure, Dee O’Connor et al.
Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
- Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning – blended learning (print and digital)
WINNER: Australian Politics in the Twenty-First Century: Old Institutions, New Challenges
Glenn Kefford et al
Cambridge University Press
Highly Commended: Financial Institutions and Markets 8e
Ben Hunt, Chris Terry
Cengage
- Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning – digital only
WINNER: Teaching: Making a Difference, 4th Edition
Rick Churchill, Sally Godinho, Nicola F. Johnson et al.
Wiley Australia
Highly Commended: Bachelor of Applied Business
Chris Swan, Kathryn McInnes
La Trobe University in partnership with Didasko
- Tertiary (Adaptations) Teaching and Learning – print or blended learning (print and digital)
WINNER: Literacy for the 21st Century: A Balanced Approach, 3rd Edition
Gail E. Tompkins, Carol Smith, Rod Campbell et al.
Pearson Australia
- Tertiary (Adaptations) Teaching and Learning – digital only
WINNER: Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
Robert Parrino, David Kidwell, Hue Hwa Au Yong et al.
Wiley Australia
- TAFE & Vocational Education Teaching and Learning – print or blended learning (print and digital)
WINNER: Clinical Placement Manual for the Diploma of Nursing 1e
Catherine Joustra, Ali Moloney
Cengage
- TAFE & Vocational Education Teaching and Learning – digital only
WINNER: Certificate IV in Patisserie
Kathryn McInnes, Kathy Roser, Denise McCallum
Didasko
- The Inaugural Mike Horsley Award
For dedication to Australian educational publishing.
WINNER: Peter Stannard, Director of Firefly Education
OUTSTANDING CATEGORIES
- Outstanding Primary Resource
WINNER: Sound Waves Foundation Teacher Book and Foundation Online and Student Book
Barbara Murray, Terri Watson
Firefly Education Pty Ltd
- Outstanding Secondary Resource
WINNER: Poems to Share II
AATE and Red Room Poetry
- Outstanding Tertiary / TAFE & Vocational Resource
WINNER: Clinical Placement Manual for the Diploma of Nursing 1e
Catherine Joustra, Ali Moloney
Cengage
- Publisher of the Year 2019 (Primary) – sponsored by Copyright Agency
PLD Literacy
- Publisher of the Year 2019 (Secondary) – sponsored by Copyright Agency
Oxford University Press