Featured books: Humanities - learning and teaching
A selection of up-to-date pedagogical resources in both print and electronic formats for teaching the Humanities and social issues in the 21st century
Featured books: Humanities - Primary school
A selection of print and electronic resources aimed at supporting primary school educators to teach Humanities and social issues.
Featured books: Humanities - Secondary school
A selection of print and electronic resources about current issues in relation to Humanities education and different approaches to teaching the Humanities at secondary school.
Featured books: Humanities - Research
Featured books: Comics in the classroom
1 World Manga by Call Number: UniM Giblin Eunson Graphic Novels ROMAPublication Date: 2007This book results from a collaboration between comics publisher VIZ and the World Bank. The Manga style illustrations and storylines that describe issues from climate change to child soldiers to HIV/AIDS aim to bring awareness to what the World Bank describes as the “biggest crises facing humanity”. Rei is a teenage orphan who uses his martial arts skills to travel the world and fight these global problems.
The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future by Call Number: UniM Giblin Eunson Graphic Novels PILKPublication Date: 2010
Featured books: Humanities - Teaching citizenship
Teaching Citizenship Education by Call Number: Giblin Eunson Library 323.6071 LEIGISBN: 9781441104694Publication Date: 2012
Debates in Citizenship Education by Call Number: Giblin Eunson Library 372.83044 DEBAISBN: 9780415597654Publication Date: 2012
Transforming Civic Learning in Diverse Social Studies Classrooms by Call Number: 372.832 RUBIISBN: 9780415874618Publication Date: 2011
Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education by Call Number: 370.115 POSTISBN: 9780415884969Publication Date: 2011
100+ Ideas for Teaching Citizenship by Call Number: Giblin Eunson Library 370.1150941 DAVIISBN: 9781441183712Publication Date: 2011
Featured books: Humanities - Social justice
- Disposable Youth, Racialized Memories, and the Culture of Cruelty [electronic resource]Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical analyses, biography, and social theory, Disposable Youth explores the current conditions of young people now face within an emerging culture of privatization, insecurity, and commodification.
