Alison Bedford – författare

Teaching and learning resources for Years 7-10 covering the study of Humanities and Social Sciences. Cambridge Humanities & Social Sciences for Queensland 10 has been written by a team of experienced teachers from across Queensland. This interdisciplinary resource covers the four topic areas that make up the Humanities subject in the Australian Curriculum: History, Geography, Economics and Business, and Civics and Citizenship. Visit the Go website to access the Interactive Textbook, where you will find additional engaging digital content such as videos, image galleries, and a range of digital activities. The Online Teaching Suite is available for teachers, with a range of additional resources to help bring the teaching and learning of Humanities to life.

Supports teachers in delivering engaging content for the new Australian Curriculum v9.0. The second edition of Cambridge Humanities and Social Sciences for Queensland supports teachers in delivering engaging content for the new Australian Curriculum v9.0. The shaping of the modern world and challenges faced by humanity today are explored through an extensive range of sources and activity-types, and local Queensland content. This edition includes complete and up-to-date coverage of current local and international topics. There is also support for integrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge, histories, and perspectives. The strong focus on an inquiry-based framework ensures students are prepared for success in their QCE studies and beyond.

This book is grounded in the belief that every nation had its own ‘Great War’, and that children’s picture books are an important barometer of each country’s national approach.To explore the depiction of the Great War in modern Australian, British, and French children’s picture books, where this historical event is reimagined in different ways as a futile conflict, as a painful victory, and as part of one country’s founding mythology, this book uses the concept of the hero’s journey as an underlying framework. It claims that this monomythic pattern, as developed by Joseph Campbell and modified by Christopher Vogler, not only informs all picture books selected for this project but can also be used to highlight the extent to which modern children’s picture book authors and illustrators conform to their respective nation’s cultural memory.It further maintains that the specific historical context of the Great War in these children’s picture books can be used to identify a variant of the hero’s journey: the ‘ordinary soldier’s journey’. This analysis of children’s picture books about the Great War through the lens of Campbell’s hero’s journey will be of interest to both students and researchers in the fields of children’s literature, literary theory, history, cultural studies, and education.

Teaching Secondary History provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of teaching History to years 7-12 in Australian schools. Engaging directly with the Australian Curriculum, this text introduces pre-service teachers to the discipline of History. It builds on students' historical knowledge, thinking and skills and offers practical guidance on how to construct well-rounded History lessons for students. From inquiry strategies and teacher- and student-centred practice, to embedding the cross-curriculum priorities in planning and assessment, this text supports the learning and development of pre-service History teachers by connecting the 'big ideas' of teaching with the nuance of History content. Each chapter features short-answer and Pause and think questions to enhance understanding of key concepts, Bringing it together review questions to consolidate learning, classroom scenarios, examples of classroom work and a range of information boxes to connect students to additional material.

Just over 200 years ago on a stormy night, a young woman conceived of what would become one of the most iconic images of science gone wrong, the story of Victor Frankenstein and his Creature. For a long period, Mary Shelley languished in the shadow of her luminary husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, but was rescued from obscurity by the feminist scholars of the 1970s and 1980s. This book offers a new perspective on Shelley and on science fiction, arguing that she both established a new discursive space for moral thinking and laid the groundwork for the genre of science fiction. Adopting a contextual biographical approach and undertaking a close reading of the 1818 and 1831 editions of the text give readers insight into how this story synthesizes many of the concerns about new science prevalent in Shelley's time. Using Michel Foucault's concept of discourse, the present work argues that Shelley should be not only credited with the foundation of a genre but recognized as a figure who created a new cultural space for readers to explore their fears and negotiate the moral landscape of new science.

This book demonstrates how pop culture examples can be used to demystify complex social theory. Using a choose your own adventure structure, this book not only shows students of social theory how various theories can be applied but also reveals the multitude of possible pathways theory provides for comprehending society.

This book demonstrates how pop culture examples can be used to demystify complex social theory. Using a choose your own adventure structure, this book not only shows students of social theory how various theories can be applied but also reveals the multitude of possible pathways theory provides for comprehending society.