APA Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2013 winners announced

23 August 2013 Books+Publishing

The winners of this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards were announced at a ceremony at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne on 22 August.

Winners in each category are:

Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing

Publisher of the Year Primary: Macmillan Education

Publisher of the Year Secondary: Jacaranda

Publisher of the Year Tertiary: Oxford University Press

Outstanding Book of the Year (joint winners): ‘PM Oral Literacy’ series (Annette Smith, Debbie Croft et al, Cengage) and Jacaranda World History Atlas for the Australian Curriculum (Sue Burvill-Shaw, Jacaranda)

Primary Education

Primary Student Resource: Arts/Science/Humanities: Discovering History: Lower, Middle and Upper Primary (Kate Cameron & Jennifer Lawless, Pearson)

Primary Student Resource: English (Literacy/Literature/Language): ‘PM Oral Literacy’ series (Annette Smith, Debbie Croft et al, Cengage)

Primary Student Resource: Mathematics (Numeracy): ‘Oxford Big Ideas Mathematics’ series, Years 3-6 (Brian Murray, Clare Way, Peggy Ashton et al, OUP)

Primary Teaching Resource: Teaching with ICT: Digital Pedagogies for Collaboration and Creativity (Jennifer Howell, OUP)

Secondary Education

Secondary Student Resource: Junior: New Century Maths 8 for the Australian Curriculum (NSW Stage 4) (Judy Binns & Gaspare Carrozza, Cengage)

Secondary Student Resource: Senior: ‘Viscomm: A Guide to Visual Communication Design’, VCE Units 1-4 (Jacinta Patterson & Joanne Saville, CUP)

Secondary Reference Resource: Jacaranda World History Atlas for the Australian Curriculum (Sue Burvill-Shaw, Jacaranda)

Secondary Teaching Resource (joint winners): Getting into PE: Fatigue and Recovery (VEA Group) and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll iPad App (Ray Lawler et al, Currency Press)

Secondary Outstanding Digital Resource: ‘Pearson Assess Science’ 7-10 and ‘Pearson Assess Mathematics’ 7-10 (Various, Pearson)

TAFE and Vocational Education

TAFE and Vocational Education Teaching and Learning Resource: The Specialised Exercise Trainer: A Guidebook (Rosemary Marchese, Pearson)

TAFE and Vocational Education Student Resource: GOnline: Certificate III in Children’s Services from the Community Services Training Package (Karen Kearns et al, Pearson)

Tertiary Education (Wholly Australian)

Tertiary Education (Wholly Australian) Student Resource: Practical Management of Head and Neck Injury (Jeffrey Rosenfeld, Elsevier)

Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning Resource: Principles of Pathophysiology 1e (Shane Bullock & Mojella Hales, Pearson)

Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Scholarly Resource: Conservation in a Crowded World: Case Studies from the Asia Pacific (J Merson, R Cooney & P Brown, NewSouth)

Tertiary Education (Adaptations 25%)

Tertiary Education (Adaptations 25%) Teaching and Learning Resource: Physics Volume 1: Asia-Pacific Edition and Physics: Volume 2: Asia-Pacific Edition (R Serway, J Jewett, K Wilson et al, Cengage)

Tertiary Education (Adaptations 25%) Student Resource: Life Span Human Development: Australia and New Zealand Edition (C Sigelman, E Rider & L De George-Walker, Cengage)

For more information about the awards visit the APA website.

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