The titles shortlisted for this year's Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards have been announced.
The titles shortlisted in each category are:
Primary Education
Primary Reference Resource
- Playground (Nadia Wheatley, illus by Ken Searle, A&U)
Primary Student Resource: Arts/Science/Humanities
- The Little Refugee (Anh Do & Suzanne Do, illus by Bruce Whatley, A&U)
- 'Colonial People' series, including Macmillan Digital Library: Colonial People (CD) and Thinking Themes: Colonial People, Ages 10+ (Reilly [series] and Frappel, Macmillan Education)
Primary Student Resource: English (Literacy/Literature/Language)
- PM Sounds in Words (Smith and Randell, et al, Nelson Cengage Learning)
- Oxford Literacy Levels 24-30 (Haydon, Mewburn, Macintosh, Carter, et al, OUP)
Primary Student Resource Mathematics (Numeracy)
- iMaths National Edition (Chris Linthorne et al, Firefly Education)
- enVisionMATHS (various authors, Pearson Australia)
- Building Mathematics in the Early Years (Warren and deVries, OUP)
- Macmillan Maths Problem Solving Boxes (Peter Maher, Macmillan Education)
Primary Teaching Resource
- Music Room Book 7 (Fairbairn, Leehy & O'Mara, Bushfire Press)
- The Primary Connections 5Es (DVD) (Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Science)
- Primary Connections: Melting Moments (Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Science)
- Teaching and Assessing Maths Through Open-Ended Activities (Lilburn & Sawczak, Pearson Australia)
Secondary Education
Secondary Student Resource: Junior
- Tapis Volant 3rd Edition (Chamberlain & Zemiro, Nelson Cengage Learning)
- Oxford Year 10 English Australian Curriculum (Johnstone & Horne, OUP)
- Pearson’s English 7-10 (Michael Pryor et al, Pearson Australia)
- Oxford Big Ideas History 7-10 Australian Curriculum (Saldais, Smith, Carrodus, et al, OUP)
- Oxford Big Ideas Science 7-10 Australian Curriculum (various authors, OUP)
- Pearson Science 7-10 (various authors, Pearson Australia)
- Pearson Maths 7-10 (David Coffey et al, Pearson Australia)
- Nelson iScience 7 for the Australian Curriculum (various authors, Nelson Cengage Learning)
Secondary Student Resource: Senior
- VCE Religion and Society Units 1-4 (Green, Samuel & Paul, Macmillan Education)
- Heinemann Physics Enhanced (various authors, Pearson Australia)
Secondary Reference Resource
- Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Porn Industry (ed by Reist & Bray, Spinifex Press)
- Cookery the Australian Way 8th Edition (Shirley Cameron, Macmillan Education)
- Global Words: English for Global Education (website) http://www.globalwords.edu.au/ (PETAA and World Vision)
Secondary Teaching Resource
- Developing Game Sense through Tactical Learning – A resource for Teachers and Coaches (Breed and Spittle, CUP)
- Pearson Mathematics 7-8 Teacher Companions (David Coffey et al, Pearson Australia)
TAFE and Vocational Education
TAFE Teaching and Learning Resource
- WHS: A Management Guide 3e (Archer, Borthwick, Travers & Ruschena, Cengage Learning)
- Read it, Write it: Australasian Intermediate Teacher Resource (Shiels, Garnsworthy & Robinson, OUP)
- Read it, Write it: Australasian Intermediate Student Resource (Shiels, Garnsworthy & Robinson, OUP)
TAFE Student Resource
- Basic Skills: Plumbing Services Series 3e (Kavanagh, Paulsen, Puffett & Hossack, McGraw-Hill Australia)
- Essential Clinical Skills Enrolled/Division 2 Nurses 2e (Tollefson, Bishop, Jelly, Watson & Tambree, Cengage Learning)
- Electrical Principles 2e (Phillips, Cengage Learning)
Tertiary Education (adaptations – 30%)
Tertiary (adaptations) Teaching and Learning Resource
- Weber & Kelley’s Health Assessment for Nursing (Lewis & Foley, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)
- Literacy for the 21st Century: A Balanced Approach (Tompkins, Campbell & Green, Pearson Australia)
- Karch’s Pharmacology for Nursing and Midwifery (McKenna & Lim, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)
- Videbeck’s Mental Health Nursing (Evans and Brown, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)
- Advertising - An Integrated Marketing Communication Perspective (Belch, Belch, Kerr & Powell, McGraw-Hill Australia)
- Microeconomics 2e; Macroeconomics 2e (Hubbard, Garnett, Lewis & O’Brien, Pearson Australia)
Tertiary (adaptations) Student Resource
- Integrated Marketing Communications (Chitty, Barker, Valos & Shimp, Cengage Learning)
- Principles of Marketing 5e (Armstrong, Adam, Denize & Kotler, Pearson Australia)
- Marketing research 3e (Hair, Lukas and Miller, McGraw-Hill Australia)
- Economics for Today: 4th Asia Pacific ed (Layton, Robinson & Tucker, Cengage Learning)
- Principles of Economics 5e / Principles of Microeconomics 5e / Principles of Macroeconomics 5e (Stonecash, Gans, King & Mankiw, Cengage Learning)
Tertiary Education (Wholly Australian)
Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Student Resource
- Clinical Dosage Calculations: Australia and New Zealand Ed (Brotto & Rafferty, Cengage Learning)
- Connecting With Tort Law (Davis, OUP)
- Research Methods in Nursing and Midwifery: Pathways to Evidence-Based Practice (Jirojwong, Johnson & Welch, OUP)
- Teaching Mathematics; Foundations to Middle Years (Siemon, Beswick, Brady, Clark, Faragher & Warren, OUP)
- Modern Criminal Law of Australia (Gans, CUP)
Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning Resource
- Organisational Behaviour (Creed & Phillips, OUP)
- Business Finance 11e (Pierson, Brown, Easton, Howard & Pinder, McGraw-Hill Australia)
Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Scholarly Resource
- Australia and the Antarctic Treaty System: 50 Years of Influence (ed by Haward & Griffiths, UNSW Press)
- The Drug Effect: Health Crime and Society (ed by Fraser & Moore, CUP)
- Australian Poetry Since 1788 (ed by Lehmann & Gray, UNSW Press)
- Epidemiology (Buettner & Muller, OUP).
The winners in each category, as well as the primary and secondary publishers of the year, will be announced on Thursday 6 September at a ceremony at Federation Square in Melbourne, following the APA's futurEducation symposium.