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Developing early literacy - Assessment and teaching
Susan
Hill
Eleanor Curtain Publishing
This award-winning handbook for understanding and teaching early literacy is a comprehensive, balanced and well researched guide that focuses on developing reading, writing, speaking and listening skills in children from birth to eight years.
Author Associate Professor Susan Hill was a joint winner in the Tertiary Education category of the 2006 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing for her handbook, a "must-have" guide written specifically for teacher education students and practising teachers working in early childhood settings, including preschools and the first years of school.
The book explores early literacy development and acknowledges that all children develop differently. Assessment is highlighted because it is by observing and assessing children’s language and literacy that teachers can make plans for teaching. The book focuses on how literacy develops, how to assess literacy development and how to teach literacy.
It includes a complete guide for managing the literacy program, making connections between children and families; understanding concepts of print and word studies; and a multitude of teaching activities for developing awareness of words, syllables, rhymes, alliteration and the individual sounds in spoken language that are linked to oral language development.
For more information visit:
www.ecpublishing.com.au
Swimming Upstream – The struggle to conceive
David
Rawlings
Landmark Media
Fertility rates are falling. The Federal Treasurer is pleading with couples to have children to help the country.
One in six Australian couples will have problems conceiving but their emotional roller-coaster experience is very hard to understand unless you’ve been through it. Or unless you’ve read a book like Swimming Upstream: the Struggle to Conceive.
Authors David Rawlings, a UniSA alumnus who has been through IVF, and Karen Looi, a leading infertility counsellor, relate the patient experience in down-to-earth terms, using honesty and humour to talk about what people actually go through. They offer professional advice on how to cope.
The book also looks at fertility myths in our society, social isolation faced by an infertile couple, why men don’t talk about fertility problems and how infertility can destroy a couple’s sex life.
Some issues have never been discussed in literature before, such as the effect of infertility on the couple’s parents, the "grandparents-in-waiting", how men deal with their own father while unable to have children and what men are thinking.
Based on research with infertile couples, the author’s own experience and years of fertility counselling experience, Swimming Upstream is an easy-to-read, practical and reassuring resource.
For more information visit:
www.swimmingupstream.com.au
Reforming China’s state-owned enterprises and banks
Becky
Chiu and Mervyn K Lewis
Edward Elgar Publishing
This book’s starting point is that after two decades of experiments,
during which other transition economies have effectively
privatised all of their former state enterprises, China is still
endeavouring to find a way to reinvent and re-engineer its own state-owned
economic establishments.
The authors explore these reforms along with the problems of China’s state-owned banks, which have long been troubled by the adverse loans of Chinese enterprises and face foreign competition in 2007 under China’s WTO commitments.
Drawing on wide-ranging case studies of enterprise reform, Becky Chiu, Director of Hong Kong’s Universal Investment & Consultant Ltd and Mervyn Lewis, Professor of Banking and Finance at UniSA, combine their extensive experience to give an authoritative account of China’s enterprise and bank reform agenda, involving property right, improved corporate governance and stimulating enterprise.
This book will be of great interest to business and academic economists and those following the development of the Chinese economy.
For more information visit:
www.e-elgar.com