Australia and New Zealand Points of View Reference Centre
The Australia and New Zealand Points of View Reference Centre is a comprehensive database designed to provide access to diverse perspectives on a wide array of current issues relevant to researchers and students in the region. It features full-text overviews and opposing viewpoints on more than 200 topics, including critical issues such as climate change, indigenous rights, and public health crises like COVID-19. Each topic is structured to include a summary, a primary argument, and counterarguments, fostering a deeper understanding of the complexities surrounding contemporary debates.
The database aims to enhance analytical thinking and persuasive writing skills by offering hundreds of essays, multimedia resources, and guides for crafting position papers and debates. Its user-friendly interface ensures that users can easily access materials from various political and ideological viewpoints, including essays, news articles, and primary sources. Additionally, educators can leverage the resources available to support curriculum delivery, aligning with educational standards in both Australia and New Zealand. Overall, the Australia and New Zealand Points of View Reference Centre serves as a valuable tool for students and educators seeking to navigate and comprehend multifaceted issues within their cultural and social contexts.
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Australia and New Zealand Points of View Reference Centre
Australia/New Zealand Points of View Reference Center is a database that presents full-text, high-quality overviews and opposing opinions on numerous current issues. Containing resources that present multiple sides of a current issue , with a particular emphasis on information related to key topics of interest to Australia/New Zealand researchers, this database helps students realise and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills. The database’s content includes hundreds of essays and images covering many pressing current issues, including climate change, aboriginal peoples’ rights, sexual harassment and COVID-19, and helps students gain fuller perspectives on these topics in order to generate informed opinions of their own.
Resources for Critical Analysis
Australia/New Zealand Points of View Reference Centre covers more than 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). Each topic features a Guide to Critical Analysis which helps the reader evaluate the controversy and enhances students’ ability to read critically, develop their own perspective on the issues and write or debate an effective argument.
Available in its own user-friendly interface, Australia/New Zealand Points of View Reference Centre contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 700 main essays, leading political magazines from all sides of the political spectrum, newspapers, radio and television news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books. The database also offers guides for writing position papers, developing arguments and debating.
School Curriculum Support
Educators using Australia/New Zealand Points of View Reference Centre will find resources for enhancing curriculum delivery across disciplines. To match Australian curriculum standards, the database helps students comprehend multi-modal texts through listening, reading and viewing, link and summarise information from different sources and identify embedded perspectives and evaluate supporting evidence. Students in New Zealand can use the database to understand how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences, understand ideas within, across and beyond texts, and integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies to identify, form and express ideas.
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