This book argues for dynamic and relevant school experiences for primary and early secondary learners that embed digital media production. It proposes a vision of literacy that combines new technologies with multiple modes of meaning-making. Drawing on theories related to cultural studies, media literacy, anthropology, and creativity, the author explores learning strategies with digital media based on an empowering, values-driven framework. The book advances innovative teaching methods, critiquing educational 'reforms' that marginalise media and fail to engage with the complex tensions and textures of modern pedagogy. Positioning film and media-making as vital practices in schools that nurture the skills, dispositions and competencies of modern literacy, the model foregrounds connections between human agency, cognition, and creative practice. This innovative book will appeal to students and scholars of creativity, digital media production, primary education and literacy.

This book argues for dynamic and relevant school experiences for primary and early secondary learners that embed digital media production. It proposes a vision of literacy that combines new technologies with multiple modes of meaning-making. Drawing on theories related to cultural studies, media literacy, anthropology, and creativity, the author explores learning strategies with digital media based on an empowering, values-driven framework. The book advances innovative teaching methods, critiquing educational 'reforms' that marginalise media and fail to engage with the complex tensions and textures of modern pedagogy. Positioning film and media-making as vital practices in schools that nurture the skills, dispositions and competencies of modern literacy, the model foregrounds connections between human agency, cognition, and creative practice. This innovative book will appeal to students and scholars of creativity, digital media production, primary education and literacy.

"Egoless Elders captures both the character God desires for His servants as well as the journey He requires for their spiritual maturity, vividly painting a picture in a most understandable manner to a culture addicted to self, even within the church of the Lord Jesus Christ." -Robert Doleshal, senior pastor of Desert View Baptist Church, Gilbert, Arizona

How to Cultivate Church Leaders to Handle Church Conflicts If those involved in church conflict read Egoless Elders, they will realize why church leadership becomes dysfunctional; learn how to sustain fellowship with God and team members; actively participate in restoring functional harmony to the church; pray effectively in faith for problems in the church.

Because Egoless Elders will differentiate between natural and spiritual styles of leadership and distinguish legalistic techniques from gracious treatment; outline simple steps for self-examination and peer accountability so leaders can get together and get along; generate specific situations so leaders can examine themselves before the Lord and evaluate their effectiveness while working with one another; help leaders participate in peaceful, joyful meetings that restore hope through effective and fervent prayer.

"Egoless Elders captures both the character God desires for His servants as well as the journey He requires for their spiritual maturity, vividly painting a picture in a most understandable manner to a culture addicted to self, even within the church of the Lord Jesus Christ." -Robert Doleshal, senior pastor of Desert View Baptist Church, Gilbert, Arizona

How to Cultivate Church Leaders to Handle Church Conflicts If those involved in church conflict read Egoless Elders, they will realize why church leadership becomes dysfunctional; learn how to sustain fellowship with God and team members; actively participate in restoring functional harmony to the church; pray effectively in faith for problems in the church.

Because Egoless Elders will differentiate between natural and spiritual styles of leadership and distinguish legalistic techniques from gracious treatment; outline simple steps for self-examination and peer accountability so leaders can get together and get along; generate specific situations so leaders can examine themselves before the Lord and evaluate their effectiveness while working with one another; help leaders participate in peaceful, joyful meetings that restore hope through effective and fervent prayer.

This powerful story is a tale of the gritty, hard working North East of England, in the first years of the twentieth century, when life had never been harder. Set among the dockers and workers of the close-knit Irish community, this is a novel of hard times and violence, but also of the powerful bonds of family and a strong Catholic faith that can unite the group against a rough and hostile world. Using the theme of Tom Casey, who is imprisoned for a rape he did not commit, and a campaigning young solicitor determined to see him freed, this is a panoramic picture of a tough, warm hearted and sometimes brutal world of the past that is today but a distant memory - but one that should never be forgotten.

Boom or bust? What was the truth of the great land booms that swept Australia in the 1880s and 1890s? How was it that some speculators amassed prodigious fortunes, while others went so spectacularly broke? Seventy years after the events, historian Michael Cannon began sifting through thousands of records and documents, long since filed and forgotten. He pieced together an incredible trail of corruption and roguery, rarely if ever equalled in any parliamentary democracy. When the bare bones of this expose were first published in 1966, it caused an immediate sensation as the forebears of many well-known families were involved. Never before had any Australian historian been able to document such unbridled greed and over-riding ambition. Extended and revised, The Land Boomers is generously illustrated with cartoons, photographs and etchings of the time, and includes an introduction by the author on how he came to research and write the book.

At the turn of the last century, in the north of England, a family struggles to survive. It could be the story of any number of real people, and indeed, it just may be... Da' has gone to India with the Army, leaving Ma to fend for the children. Jim is a good strong lad, but gets into trouble; Katie works in the big house, where the master ruthlessly takes advantage of her youthful beauty; and poor young Mick contracts tuberculosis. The family must face and conquer these trials, and there is one thing that helps to strengthen their tortured hearts in these, their darkest hours - their love and kinship, and their faith. A gritty, yet life-affirming tale of the triumph of the human spirit and kindness over grinding poverty and seemingly insurmountable odds.