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Preparing to Thrive …

Cartoons from Adelaide Botanic High School‘s student free staff development day, 10th March. Sessions included ‘Literacy to Thrive’, ‘Teaching and Learning Cycle’, ‘Talking to Learn’, ‘Vocabulary’ and ‘AI in Education‘.

The future: a courageous generation …

Sacred Heart College, Brighton South Australia held its Marist ‘Voice of the Courageous Heart’ Liturgy celebration on Friday 30th September. The event was captured in cartoon style on a long panel. A copy was made after the event for the college’s other campus. See last year’s panel here.

It’s no bubble bath …

Independence Educational Publishers are “Cambridge-based educational publishers of books and online resources that tackle important social issues. Our products present accessible information on topics such as drugs, relationship abuse, racial discrimination, poverty, and many more.” These are some of the cartoon illustrations from their latest set of books on Alcohol Addiction, National Health, Housing, Disability, Pregnancy and Teen Self-care.

A wave of voices …

‘A wave of community support reaching State Parliament in the form of signatures on the AEU Student Support Funding petition’. More that 10,000 people signed the petition. The cover illustration for the Australian Education Union (AEU), South Australian branch Journal.

Healthy disruption …

Cartoon commentary at the Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia, CAPHIA, Teaching and Learning Forum: Public Health education in a Time of Disruption, 15 & 16 July.

Some of the day one cartoons…

Some of the second day’s cartoons …

Kunmanara …

Kunmanara is a book published by the Department for Education, Government of South Australia, for use in schools in the APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara) Lands in the remote north west of South Australia. There are Pitjantjatjara and Yakunytjatjara language versions.

By the Right, number ….

Teaching by Numbers, an illustration for the article in the latest Australian Education Union Journal (South Australia branch). ‘An increasing number of politicians and education consultancy businesses believe that knowledge can be broken down into discrete parts, standardised for easy consumption, routinised to ensure consistency and subsequently measured through predefined forms of assessment.’

Learning more …

Listening and scribbling at the University of NSW, Learning and Teaching forum – Learning without limits: leading the change, virtual forum, 19 & 20 November. Some of the cartoons here, and you can see all of the cartoons drawn and posted during the forum on the Padlet .

Latest Issues ….

Independence Educational Publishers (UK) publish Issues ‘a unique series of cross-curricular resource books for 14- to 18-year-olds. The series explores contemporary social issues, stimulating debate and critical thinking among readers of all levels.‘ As well as other illustrations each book has a number of cartoons specially drawn by cartoonists Angelo Madrid, Don Hatcher and myself. The latest books in the series are Euthanasia, Population Change, The Gender Equality Debate, Crime in the UK, Discussing Abortion and Tourism Today … this last book a little ironic considering the present state of things. A few of my cartoons…

 

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…from Discussing Abortion

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…from The Gender Equality Debate

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…from Euthanasia

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…from Tourism Today

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…from Crime in the UK

Don’t let go…

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Illustration for a new article posted on the  CULTURICO  blog, Critical thinking in education, ‘…with an increasing volume of communication present in everyday life there is a greater need to critically examine this overwhelming amount of information.’