The School of Education is celebrating the release of six new in-depth research books.

The Dean, School of Education, Professor David Giles and Associate Dean (Research) Associate Professor Helen Askell-Williams were among those who introduced the latest round of research publications at the Flinders Educational Futures Research Institute book launch on 10 December.

They include a Cambridge University Press publication, Understanding Child and Adolescent Behaviour in the Classroom, co-written by Dr David Armstrong – which was highly recommended by Associate Professor Kerry Bissaker – and Child Development Theories and Critical Perspectives (Routledge, UK) by Adjunct Professor Rosalyn Shute and Professor Phillip Slee.

Associate Professor Shane Pill’s latest book in the Play with Purpose series, Coaching football (soccer) game sense: Developing the technical and tactical connection of thinking players, was introduced by Alison Turner, national executive director of the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER), which sponsors the series.

The second edition of the successful Teaching mathematics: Foundation to middle years (University Press) features Flinders co-authors Associate Professor Julie Clark and Dr Kathy Brady while Dr Michelle Kohler’s Teachers as mediators in the foreign language classroom (Multilingual Matters, UK) was also launched.

Seventeen papers in the Transforming the Future of Learning with Educational Research book cover a wide range of topics, from Professor John Halsey and Associate Professor John Guenther on remote education to Professor Larry Owens and Dr Grace Skrzypiec on adolescent offending and Dr Karyn Carson and Peter Walker on the Australian curriculum.

Associate Professor Askell-Williams says the books highlight the depth and breadth of research at the School of Education.