Designing Schools: Space, Place and Pedagogy explores the connections between school building design and educational practices throughout the twentieth century to today. Through international cases studies that span the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, this volume examines historical innovations in school architecture and situates these within changing pedagogical ideas about the ‘best’ ways to educate children. It also investigates the challenges posed by the digital age to the design and use of school places. Set around three interlinked themes – school buildings, school spaces and school cultures – this book argues that education is mediated or framed by the spaces in which it takes place, and that those spaces are in turn influenced by cultural, political and social concerns about teaching, learning and the child.

Product Description: Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage explores how the everyday experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds, are collected, interpreted and displayed in museums and on monuments, and represented through objects and cultural lore...read more

Product Description: An evocative study of Melbourne during World War II, this newly revised account illustrates life in an Australian city during wartime, drawing upon the memories of the men and women who lived through these turbulent years. Investigating the work, leisure, relationships, and fears of the families left behind, this record also covers topics such as Australian nationalism and identity, the challenged traditional roles of mothers and wives, and the issues of drunkenness, gambling, and sexuality on the home front...read more

Product Description: An American academic who pioneered as an advocate for the play of children in the 1950s, she observe and documented the play and folklore of children in Australia, meticulously documenting accounts of childhood games such as hopscotch, marbles, and string games...read more

Discusses the history, environment, cultures, economies, and natural resources of Australia, Antarctia, and Oceania.

Presents a political and cultural history of Australia from the arrival of the Aborigines to modern times. (view table of contents)

Examines the geography, history, economy, and culture of Australia and Oceania (view table of contents)

Product Description: Capturing the essence of formative moments in Australian history, this collection of public addresses and speeches—from impassioned Parliamentary harangues to succinct and pithy one-liners—provides fresh glimpses into Australian society, culture, and people.

Product Description: Text, Theory, Space is a landmark in post-colonial criticism and theory. Focusing on two white settler societies, South Africa and Australia, the contributors investigate the meaning of 'the South' as an aesthetic, political, geographical and cultural space...read more

Product Description: Text, Theory, Space is a landmark in post-colonial criticism and theory. Focusing on two white settler societies, South Africa and Australia, the contributors investigate the meaning of 'the South' as an aesthetic, political, geographical and cultural space...read more

Describes the climate and wildlife of the Austalian outback, looks at the history of its inhabitants, both Aboriginal and European, and describes the ecological problems of the region