The Education Continuum

American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Book Awards Call for Nominations

Are you involved in the American Educational Studies Association and have written a book that you could nominate for the Critics Choice Book Award?  AESA are now accepting nominations for the award.

"Critics Choice Book Award Selection Committee (CCBASC) announces the call for book nominations to be considered for the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award. Books recipients of the award will be honored at the 2012 annual meeting of the American Educational Studies Association in Seattle, WA, and will be displayed in our Book Exhibit room. The CCBASC is eager to identify and bring attention to texts that are of general appeal, interest and significance to the area of Foundations of Education. Through an open nomination process, we hope to produce a broad range of nominated titles across all areas of Foundations of Education, including scholarship that foregrounds historical, philosophical, sociological and/or cultural studies approaches to educational inquiry. We seek to maintain the spirit of the Critics Choice Book Award (outlined in the AESA bylaws) as a noncompetitive way to call attention to outstanding contemporary publications, which may be of interest and professional use to AESA members in their scholarship and teaching.

ONLY AESA MEMBERS ARE ALLOWED TO NOMINATE BOOKS. Books with a publication date of 2010, 2011 or 2012 will be considered for the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award. Self-nomination is allowed. To nominate a text, please include the full citation as well as a brief rationale (no more than 100 words) outlining how the book demonstrates excellence according to the following criteria:
1) relevance to Foundations of Education and the mission of AESA;
2) originality of research;
3) scholarly or intellectual impact on the field;
and/or 4) significance of topic.

Please submit all nominations by May 1, 2012 to Yolanda (Jolie) Medina, chair of the CCBASC, at ymedina@bmcc.cuny.edu."

Good luck to those entering!

Alison Baker
Senior Commissioning Editor

The Dyscalculia Assessment - Winner of the Best Special Educational Needs Resource - Non ICT ERA Award

I thought you’d all be pleased to hear that Continuum’s winning streak is still very much in vogue.
 
Last Friday, The Dyscalculia Assessment won the prestigious ERA award for Best Special Educational Needs Resource - Non ICT.

Melanie Wilson, one of the authors of the book – Trish Babtie – and I were in attendance to accept the award and enjoy some dinner, dancing and roulette.  It was a lovely evening and a great opportunity to dust off our glad-rags.

Please join me in giving huge congratulations to Jane, Trish and Mel, and all those involved in producing the book, on this fantastic achievement.

Alison Baker
Commissioning Editor (Academic Education)

Continuum - Independent Publisher of the Year

I'm delighted to report that at last night's UK IPG Independent Pubilshing Awards Continuum were awarded Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year and then, from the winners of all of the categories, Independent Publisher of the Year!  You can read more about it in The Bookseller and on the IPG website.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us - this wouldn't have been possible without you.

Alison Baker
Commissioning Editor (Academic Education)

nasen Awards 2011

I’m delighted to be able to share the exciting news that three of our Education titles have been shortlisted for the nasen Awards 2011.

Teaching Children to Listen by Liz Spooner and Jacqui Woodcock has been shortlisted in the Primary Resource/Book to Support Teaching and Learning (non-ICT) category and in the Resource to Support Speech, Language and Communication Needs category.

 

 

 

 

Justice and Equality in Education: A Capability Perspective on Disability and Special Educational Needs by Lorella Terzi has been shortlisted in the Special Educational Needs Academic Book category.

 

 

 

 

Special Educational Needs: A New Look 2Ed by Mary Warnock and Brahm Norwich, edited by Lorella Terzi, has been shortlisted in the Special Educational Needs Academic Book category.

 

 

 

 

The winning product in each category will be announced at a ceremony which will be held on Tuesday 24 May 2011 at 7.00 pm in the Platinum Suite at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton, as part of nasen Live 2011.  Watch this space…

Alison Baker
Commissioning Editor (Academic Education)

Two Continuum books shortlisted for the 2011 Education Resources Awards!

I am extremely pleased to announce that two of our books have been shortlisted for this year's Education Resources Awards!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The complete assessment tool for investigating maths difficulties in children, The Dyscalculia Assessment, by Jane Emerson and Patricia Babtie is up for the Best Special Needs Education Resource or Equipment - non ICT, and Best Educational book.

The hands-on guide to improving the listening skills of children of all abilities aged 3-11, Teaching Children to Listen, by and Liz Spooner and Jacqui Woodcock has been shortlisted for the Best Educational Book award.

The winners will be announced at a gala event to be held at The Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham on the second evening of The Education Show 2011: Friday 18 March 2011. Watch this space…

Melanie Wilson
Commissioning Editor (Professional Education)