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Educational Publishing Awards 2020 winners announced

4 September 2020   Books+Publishing
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The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2020 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA).

Promoting Literacy Development (PLD) was awarded the 2020 Publisher of the Year for Primary for the third year running.

The 2020 Publisher of the Year for Secondary was Jacaranda.

The Mike Horsley Award was presented to Peter van Noorden, in recognition of a career spanning more than 40 years.

The other awards announced were:

Outstanding primary resource

  • Our Land, Our Stories (Sally Lawrence, Lisa Fuller et al., Cengage partnered with AIATSIS), praised for its ‘authenticity in the way that it celebrates contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures’.

Outstanding secondary resource

  • Jacaranda VCE Chemistry 1 Units 1&2 2E + studyON and Jacaranda VCE Chemistry Units 3&4 2E + studyON (Neale Taylor, Angela Stubbs, Robert Stokes et al., Jacaranda), recognised for its ‘clear and accessible content and its direct alignment of content with the key knowledge and skill requirements of the study design’.

Outstanding Tertiary and VET resource

  • Financial Accounting 9e (Craig Deegan, McGraw Hill), recognised ‘due to its comprehensive and memorable suite of resources and its student-focused approach’.

Scholarly Nonfiction Book of the Year

  • Australianama (Samia Khatun, UQP), which judges called ‘an intriguing story that has required, in its telling, both careful, sustained research and familiarity with diverse and complex cultural traditions and areas of philosophy’.

Primary

Student Resource: Mathematics (numeracy)

  • Oxford Maths for Australian Schools Student Dashboards (Years 3 to 6) (Annie Facchinetti, Brian Murray, Oxford University Press)

Student Resource: Arts/Science/Humanities/Social Sciences/Technologies/Health and Physical Education/Languages 

  • Our Land, Our Stories (Sally Lawrence, Lisa Fuller et al., Cengage partnered with AIATSIS)

Student Resource: English (Literacy/Literature/Language)

  • Effective Spelling (Christine Topfer, Emma Warren & Bethany Woolnough, Nelson)

Teaching Resource (Primary)

  • Design and Technologies: Project-based Learning (RIC Publications)

Reference Resource

  • Teaching with Intent 2: Literature-based literacy teaching and learning (Bronwyn Parkin & Helen Harper, Primary English Teaching Association Australia)

Educational Picture or Chapter Book

  • Love Your Body (Jessica Sanders, Five Mile Press)

Secondary

Student Resource (Junior):  English/Humanities/Languages/Arts/Technologies/Health and Physical Education

  • Jacaranda Humanities Alive 7-10 series for the Victorian Curriculum 2e – Print & learnON (Robert Darlington et al., Jacaranda)

Student Resource (Junior): Mathematics/Science

  • Cambridge Science for the Victorian Curriculum (Victoria Shaw, Kerrie Ardley, Eddy de Jong et al., Cambridge University Press)

Student Resource (Senior): Mathematics/Science

  • Jacaranda VCE Chemistry 1 Units 1&2 2E + studyON and Jacaranda VCE Chemistry Units 3&4 2E + studyON (Neale Taylor, Angela Stubbs, Robert Stokes et al., Jacaranda)

Student Resource (Senior): English/Humanities/Languages/Arts/Technologies/Health and Physical Education

  • Analysing and Presenting Arguments Units 1-4 Student book + obook assess, Analysing and Presenting Arguments Units 1-4 Student obook assess, Analysing and Presenting Arguments Units 1-4 Teacher obook assess (Ryan Johnstone, Oxford University Press)

Reference Resource

  • Australian Student’s Oxford Dictionary (Mark Gwynn, Oxford University Press)

Teaching Resource

  • Creating Micro Stories: Small fiction with a big impact! (Erika Boas, Emma Jenkins, Australian Association for the Teaching of English)

Tertiary and TAFE

Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning – print 

  • Integrated Marketing Communications (Max Winchester, Peter Ling, Lara Stocchi et al., Oxford University Press)

Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning  – blended learning

  • Financial Accounting 9e (Craig Deegan, McGraw Hill)

Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning – digital only

  • Study Ready Orientation (Chris Swan, Naomi Holding & Kathy McInnes, La Trobe University in partnership with Didasko)

Tertiary (Adaptations) Teaching and Learning  – print or blended learning 

  • Health Assessment and Physical Examination 3e with MindTap (Pauline Calleja, Karen Theobald, Theresa Harvey et al., Cengage)

Tertiary (Adaptations) Teaching and Learning – digital only

  • MindTap for Understanding Nutrition 4e (Ellie Whitney, Tim Crowe, Adam Walsh et al., Cengage)

TAFE & Vocational Education Teaching and Learning – print or blended learning 

  • Supporting Education 3e with MindTap (Karen Kearns, Cengage)

TAFE & Vocational Education Teaching and Learning – digital only

  • Honey: Harvesting and Extracting (Kathryn McInnes, Kathy Roser & Denise McCallum, Tocal College).

The Educational Publishing Awards Australia ceremony was held online on Thursday, 3 September. For more information see the EPAA website, or browse the EPAA catalogue here.

 

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