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CDVEC CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT UNIT

- CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS -

2017

CDETB Curriculum Development Unit McCann House

99 Marlborough Road Donnybrook

Dublin 4 Tel: (01) 498 9512/498 9500

Fax: (01) 496 9087 Email: [email protected]

Web site: cdetbcdu.ie / www.curriculum.ie

http://cdetbcdu.ie/

http://www.curriculum.ie/

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How to order books: Simply contact us at the Curriculum Development Unit or call in. Please call in advance to check if the resource centre is open. Please do not send cheques beforehand. You will be invoiced with the books including the cost of post and packing. Please do not alter invoices.

CDU The Curriculum Development Unit was established in 1972. It is funded by the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee (CDVEC) (now: City of Dublin Education and Training Board (CDETB)), and is managed jointly by the CDETB, Trinity College, Dublin and the Department of Education.

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CONTENTS

Work Materials: Junior Certificate/JCSP English 4 Environmental & Social Studies (ESS) 6 Civic, Social and Political Education (CSPE) 8 Gaeilge 10 Mathematics 11 Science 12 Social and Health Education 14

Work Materials: Leaving Certificate Gaeilge 15

Work Materials: Leaving Certificate Applied (LCA) 16

Reports 17

Index and Price List 23

Order Form 25

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Work Materials Junior Certificate/JCSP

ENGLISH

Animals and Their Environments This illustrated book, produced for students doing the Junior Certificate School Programme, explains topics such as prehistoric animals, wildlife in Ireland and endangered species and pets, in very clear and simple English. There is an accompanying workbook.

Prices: Student Book €3.20 Workbook €1.90

Cosmorama Cosmorama is a collection of poems, short stories and prose extracts intended for use with First Year Students. All pieces are graded according to level of difficulty. Suggestions for lesson plans are included in the book. Price: €3.80

Everyday English Reading and Understanding Working with Words These three student workbooks are designed for students doing the Junior Certificate School Programme. They are intended as work-sheets to supplement other materials.

Prices: Everyday English €1.90 Reading and Understanding €1.90 Working with Words €1.90

Letter Writing This student workbook is designed to help students practise writing different types of letters including personal, formal and business letters, as well as job application letters. Price: €2.50

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Telling Stories An anthology of stories, old and new, from around the world. With the accompanying workbook, this forms a complete unit for Junior Certificate English. Prices: Textbook €3.80 Student Workbook €2.50

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ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL STUDIES (ESS)

Aran Islands This Student Workbook looks at the history and geography of the Aran Islands. Price: €3.20

The Development of Modern Irish Settlement A student workbook for the First and Second Years of the ESS course. Topics covered include: the town; rural development; transport; development plans. It would be useful for History and Geography classes also. Price: €2.50

Dublin 1913 Student’s Workbook This workbook deals with the social conditions and the political movements in Dublin at the turn of the century. In particular it examines the Lockout from the points of view of Jim Larkin and of William Murphy. Appropriate for the Industrial Revolution and Trade Unionism sections of ESS. The textbook is available from O’Brien Press. Price: €2.50

Focus on Glencree Teacher’s Notes for fieldwork in the Glencree area. Price: €1.30

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Irish Studies Student Workbook on Irish tradition and culture including chapters on the Celtic world, traditional crafts, old customs and songs. There is an accompanying Teacher’s Handbook. Prices: Student Workbook €3.20 Teacher’s Handbook €2.50

The Netherlands: Land from Water Prices: Student Workbook €3.20 Teacher’s Notes €2.50

Tallaght: Malachy Horan’s Country Student’s Workbook Price: €1.90

Undertaking Field Studies This Teacher’s Handbook has very useful ideas and guidance for teachers doing the field study section of the ESS course. It is also useful for Geography teachers. Price: €6.40

The Vikings This student workbook explores all aspects of the Viking era including religion, clothing, food and drink. Price: €2.50

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CIVIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL EDUCATION

(CSPE)

Basic Human Rights and Responsibilities A human rights education module for First Year CSPE. This contains a Core Unit on needs and rights and on the UN Declaration of Human Rights, and 3 Optional Pathways –1 Children’s Rights, 2 Specific Groups and their Rights, 3 Gender and Human Rights. Karen O’Shea et al, 1998 Price: €3.80

Changing Perspectives: Cultural Values, Diversity and Equality in Ireland and the Wider World. A Resource for Civic, Social and Political Education Resource book for teachers wishing to explore issues of diversity and equality with their students. Mary Gannon, 2002 Price: €6.00

Counted Out: Social Exclusion and Poverty in Ireland. A resource for CSPE teachers. To be published in Autumn 2002. Sandra Gowran, 2002. Price: €10.00

Exploring Interdependence A development education resource for teachers of Third Year CSPE which examines the links that exist across communities and borders, and the effect that actions taken in one place can have on another.

Karen O’Shea et al, 1998 Price: €2.50

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A Human Rights Action Project* A human rights education module for Second Year CSPE. This outlines a four-step process for doing a class action project on human rights, responsibilities and community. The resource contains ideas and methodologies for the teacher and worksheets for the students.


Making Human Rights Work* A human rights education module for Second and Third Year CSPE. The handbook includes methodologies and activities for teachers as well as worksheets for students. There are three parts: national, European and global dimensions.


* These publications are also available as gaeilge.

VOTE Exploring Democracy, Equality, Participation & Elections Deirdre Phelan, 2005 Price: €10.00

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GAEILGE

A series of Student Workbooks for those studying Junior Certificate Irish at Foundation Level.

Prices: Ag Leamh agus Ag Scriobh €1.90 Bia agus Deoch €1.90 Foirmeacha a Líonadh €5.10 Me Fein agus Mo Chlann €3.20 Peatai agus Ainmhithe €3.20 Scoil agus Abhair Scoile €2.50

Audio-cassettes are available to accompany the following titles:

Bia agus Deoch €6.40 Mé Féin agus Mo Chlann €6.40 Scoil agus Abhair Scoile €6.40

Ceisteanna Samplacha don Bhonnleibhéal Price: €2.50

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MATHEMATICS Sum Life Series A series of 8 workbooks for students doing the Junior Certificate School Programme. Each workbook deals with numeracy in life situations, illustrated by a story featuring the Kavanagh family. One book of Teacher’s Notes accompanies the series. The 8 titles are:

Discounts Eating Out Measurement Saving Time Travel Using the Calculator Value for Money Prices: Student Workbooks €1.30 each

Working with Maths Series Student workbooks covering basic maths skills.

Prices: Basic Maths Skills €1.30 Fractions €1.90 Tables €2.50

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SCIENCE

How Does Your Garden Grow? This workbook consists of information pages followed by worksheets, covering topics such as plants, hanging baskets, planting trees. Price: €1.90

The Human Body This Student Workbook concentrates on the basic parts and functions of the human body and includes simple exercises and experiments. The language used is very simple and it would be suitable for Junior Certificate School Programme students. Price: €2.50

Science for Life: Chemistry This workbook deals with some basic chemistry topics - acids, bases, separating techniques. The book could be used by First Year Ordinary Level candidates, as a supplement to other texts. Price: €3.20

Science for Life: Electricity for Bright Sparks This workbook covers all the electricity topics on the Junior Certificate Higher and Lower Level Courses, but its format is designed to make it accessible for the less able student. Price: €3.20

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Science for Life: Introduction to the Laboratory This Student Workbook is intended for use by less able students starting the Junior Certificate Science syllabus. Price: €3.20

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SOCIAL AND HEALTH EDUCATION This series was developed to facilitate schools that were planning a personal and social development course for Junior Cycle students. The series comprises 3 student workbooks: Heredity and Environment; Healthy and Safe Living; Work and Leisure.

Healthy and Safe Living This Student Workbook deals with topics such as: personal hygiene; nutrition; substance abuse and safety. Price: €3.80

Heredity and Environment This Student Workbook is for First Year students, and deals with topics such as starting at secondary school, myself, my family, my community. Price: €3.80

Work and Leisure This workbook deals with topics such as: working conditions now and in the past; equal rights at work; coping with unemployment; use of leisure time. This is also useful for Transition Year students. Price: €3.80

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Work Materials Leaving Certificate

GAEILGE

Ag Léamh agus Ag Scríobh don Ardteist (Bonnleibhéal) Price: €3.20

Caint agus Comhrá Price: €3.80

Ceisteanna Samplacha don Ardteist (Bonnleibhéal) Price: €3.80

Conas Cuntas a Scriobh Price: €3.80

Saol na hOibre A comprehensive set of exercises preparing students for the world of work. An audio cassette is now available with this book. Price: Book €6.40 Audio cassette €6.40

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Work Materials Leaving Certificate Applied/Post-Leaving Certificate

LEAVING CERTIFICATE APPLIED Eco-Friendly Enterprise This Teacher’s Resource Book includes sections on environmental impact and improvement studies, and on sustainable development. It is aimed at enhancing the work experience of students by extending the scope of their enquiries while on work placement. Miriam Crowley and Richard Webb, 1998 Price: €6.40

Work Exploration This Student Workbook is designed to help students get the most out of their work experience. It is in three parts: job-seeking; work experience diary; follow-up to the work experience. Also suitable for Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme. Price: €2.50

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Reports

Bare Boards and a Passion: Drama in Post Primary Schools A report on the state of drama in Irish secondary schools. The findings are based on case studies, seminars and a nationwide survey of 104 schools which took place between 1994 and 1998.

Deirdre Scully, 1998 Price: €6.40

Career Development Programme This report describes the Career Development Programme run by the Schools Industry Links Scheme in Finglas in 1982.

Hanna O’Brien and Eamon Gaffney, 1982 Price: €2.50 Disadvantage, Learning and Young People These conference proceedings contain fifteen case studies of individual responses to disadvantage in Ireland. Tony Crooks and Dermot Stokes (eds.), 1987 Price: €9.50

Education for Living: Teaching Social and Industrial Studies A report on five seminars for teachers of the VPT programme. It contains chapters on industrial relations, life and social skills and the case study method of teaching. Liam O’Dwyer (ed.), 1985 Price: €3.20

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Reports

Education for Reconciliation: A Curriculum Investigation This report explores what is meant by the concept of education for reconciliation. The report then analyses selected subject and programme areas within the primary and post-primary curriculum and highlights a wide range of opportunities for the teaching of reconciliation, and suggests varied teaching methodologies. Barbara Gill (et al), 1999 Price: Free

The Future of the Curriculum These papers, published to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the CDVEC and Shannon curriculum development centres, look at many aspects of the curriculum, and discuss possible futures. Issues dealt with include: the effect of the ESF on Irish education; the background to and introduction of the Leaving Certificate Applied; modes of assessment; the role of the teacher. Anton Trant, Diarmaid O Donnabháin, Denis Lawton, Torlach O’Connor, 1998 Price: €9.50

A Global Curriculum? Development Education and the Junior Certificate The book provides detailed examination of subject syllabuses and includes sample themes, units and programmes of work which teachers might use in the classroom. Cross-curricular work is explored. The opening chapters define development and discuss the challenge of teaching about development.

John Hammond, 1991 Price: €6.40

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Reports

Innovations in Compensatory Education Outlines development strategies for vocational preparation innovations.

Eileen O’Connor, 1984 Price: €3.80

The Junior Certificate: Issues of Implementation A report on four seminars for school principals in the Greater Dublin area.

Rose Malone, 1989 Price: €4.40

Literacy Initiatives Proceedings of a conference organised by the City of Dublin VEC during 1990, International Literacy Year.

Carmel Geraghty (ed.), 1991 Price: €2.50

Ní neart go cur le chéile: On Development Education in Ireland Today Colm Regan, 1997 Price: €3.80

Outdoor Education in the Curriculum Proceedings of a conference organised by the CDU and held in Dublin in May 1998. Keynote speaker: Colin Mortlock.

Anton Trant, Cláir Ní Aonghusa, Patricia Quigley (eds.), 1998 Price: €2.50

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Reports

Planning Work Experience Report of five seminars on planning work experience.

Hanna O’Brien (ed.), 1986 Price: €3.20

Reconciling Liberal and Vocational Education This books is the result of a 2-year research project undertaken by six educational institutions from 5 countries, under the auspices of the European Union Leonardo Programme. The purpose of the project was to examine vocational education with a view to finding ways to improve its status and attractiveness. Anton Trant (ed.), 1999 Price: €9.50

School Libraries/Resource Centres Action Research Project: Final Report The report describes a study which was undertaken to establish school libraries/resource centres in selected schools and to monitor and evaluate their effect upon the schools, the teachers, students and the school curriculum.

Bernard O’Flaherty, 1987 Price: €6.40

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Reports

Towards an Integrated Approach to Human Rights Education A series of papers and reflections on human rights education within the curriculum. Karen O’Shea, Barbara Gill and Aidan Clifford (eds.), 2000 Price: Free

The Transition Year Option in CDVEC Schools This report presents the findings of research undertaken by the CDU on the needs and current provision of CDVEC schools in implementing the Transition Year Option.

Ancilla O’Reilly, 1995 Price: €2.50

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Reports

Undertaking School Review: A Discussion Paper This paper suggests eight ways in which a school might undertake a review and gives short case study examples of these methods. It also contains a background paper by Damian Hannan entitled Schools as Organisations.

Cynthia Fogarty and Tony Crooks, 1987 Price: €5.70

Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme 1989 - 1991 A report on the Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme as it operated in Colaiste Ide, Finglas from 1989 to 1991, with comments from teachers and students involved. Hanna O’Brien (ed.), 1991 Price: €2.50

YOUTHREACH 2000: A consultative process. A report on the outcomes. Dermot Stokes and the National Co-ordinators, 2000 Price: Free

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Index and Price List

INDEX AND PRICELIST Page

Ag Léamh agus Ag Scriobh (Junior Cert.) 11 €1.90 Ag Léamh agus Ag Scriobh (Leaving Cert.) 16 €3.20 Animals and their Environment 4 €3.20 Animals and their Environments: Workbook 4 €1.90 Aran Islands 6 €3.20 Bare Boards and a Passion 19 €6.40 Basic Human Rights and Responsibilities 9 €3.80 Between the Lines 5 €10.00 Bia agus Deoch 11 €1.90 Bia agus Deoch (audio-cassette) 11 €6.40 Caint agus Comhrá 16 €3.80 Career Development Programme 19 €2.50 Ceisteanna Samplacha don Bhonnleibhéal (Junior Cert.) 11 €2.50 Ceisteanna Samplacha don Bhonnleibhéal (Leaving Cert) 16 €3.80 Changing Perspectives 9 €6.00 Conas Cuntas a Scriobh 16 €3.80 Cosmorama 4 €3.80 Counted Out 9 N/A Development of Modern Irish Settlement 6 €2.50 Disadvantage, Learning and Young People 19 €9.50 Dublin 1913 6 €2.50 Eco-Friendly Enterprise 18 €6.40 Education for Living 19 €3.20 Education for Reconciliation 20 FREE Everyday English 4 €1.90 Exploring Interdependence 9 €2.50 Focus on Glencree 6 €1.30 Foirmeacha a Lionadh 11 €5.10 The Future of the Curriculum 20 €9.50 A Global Curriculum? 20 €6.40 How Does Your Garden Grow? 13 €1.90 Human Body 13 €2.50 A Human Rights Action Project 10 €2.50 Innovations in Compensatory Education 21 €3.80 Irish Studies 7 €3.20 Irish Studies: Teacher’s Notes 7 €2.50 Junior Certificate: Issues of Implementation 21 €4.40 Letter Writing 4 €2.50

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Index and Price List Literacy Initiatives 21 €2.50 Making Human Rights Work 10 €3.80 Mé Féin agus Mo Chlann 11 €3.20 Mé Féin agus Mo Chlann (audio-cassette) 11 €6.40 Netherlands: Land from Water 7 €3.20 Netherlands: Land from Water (Teacher’s Notes) 7 €2.50 Ní neart go cur le chéile 21 €3.80 Outdoor Education in the Curriculum 21 €2.50 Peataí agus Ainmhithe 11 €3.20 Planning Work Experience (Seminar Report) 22 €3.20 Reading and Understanding 4 €1.90 Reconciling Liberal and Vocational Education 22 €9.50 Saol na hOibre 16 €6.40 Saol na hOibre (audio-cassette) 16 €6.40 School Libraries/Resource Centres 22 €6.40 Science for Life: Chemistry 13 €3.20 Science for Life: Electricity for Bright Sparks 13 €3.20 Science for Life: Introduction to the Laboratory 14 €3.20 Scoil agus Abhair Scoile 11 €2.50 Scoil agus Abhair Scoile (audio-cassette) 11 €6.40 Social and Health Education: Healthy and Safe Living 15 €3.80 Social and Health Education: Heredity and Environment 15 €3.80 Social and Health Education: Work and Leisure 15 €3.80 Sum Life (per workbook) 12 €1.30 Tallaght: A Workbook 8 €1.90 Telling Stories 5 €3.80 Telling Stories: Workbook 5 €2.50 Towards an Integrated Approach to HR Education 23 FREE Transition Year Option in CDVEC Schools 23 €2.50 Undertaking Field Studies 8 €6.40 Undertaking School Review 24 €5.70 The Vikings 8 €2.50 Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme 1989-1991 24 €2.50 Work Exploration 18 €2.50 Working With Maths: Basic Maths Skills 12 €1.30 Working With Maths: Fractions 12 €1.90 Working With Maths: Tables 12 €2.50 Working With Words 4 €1.90 Youthreach 2000: a consultative process 24 FREE

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