Dr. Luke began his appointment on September 1st. We look forward to Dr. Luke’s participation in the Department as a mentor, consultant, advisor, teacher, and colleague.
Welcome Allan!
Allan Luke is Emeritus Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Luke’s career and work has been that of a global citizen and educator. Over the last three decades, has made major contributions to language and literacy education, educational policy and sociology, school reform, and applied linguistics. He has authored over 250 articles and chapters, and authored and edited 15 books. His work has appeared in Harvard Educational Review, Teachers College Record, Educational Theory, Australian Educational Researcher, Educational Researcher, Reading Research Quarterly, Educational Policy, Culture and Politics, the Canadian Journal of Education, Social Epistemology, Body and Society, Journal of Pragmatics, Linguistics and Education, TESOL Quarterly, Sociology of Education and other journals. He has made major contributions to the fields of language and literacy education, educational sociology and policy studies, applied linguistics and TESOL. These include the development of models of “critical literacy”, “the four resources model of literacy” (with Peter Freebody), and, as part of the New London Group, the development of a “pedagogy of multiliteracies”. As Deputy Director General of Education for the state of Queensland, he developed curriculum projects including “the New Basics”, “Rich Tasks” and “Productive Pedagogies”. These models and approaches to pedagogy and literacy education have been adopted in various state and national curricula and school reform across North America, Australia and New Zealand, and the Asia-Pacific.
A dual Australian/Canadian citizen, Luke was born and educated in the Chinese American community in Los Angeles and graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1972. He did his teacher training, masters and doctoral research at Simon Fraser University. He taught in elementary and secondary schools in the Fraser Valley, Burnaby and the Okanagan for a decade. In 1984, he joined James Cook University of North Queensland as a lecturer in teacher education and worked in the Aboriginal and Islander Teacher Education program. In 1996, he was appointed as Professor and Dean of Education at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. He was appointed as Deputy Director General of Education from 1999-2000 and Chief Advisor to the Minister for the state of Queensland from 2000-2002 From 2003-2005 he was Foundation Dean of Research, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he established the largest funded educational research centre in Asia. From 2006-2014 he worked as Research Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, where he is now Emeritus Professor.
Luke has provided policy consultant advice to Australian federal and state governments and to New Zealand, Ontario, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, and Kiribati, UNESCO and the OECD. He has edited 6 major journals, including Discourse, Teaching Education, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Asia Pacific Journal of Education. He was founding editor of Pedagogies: An International Journal and the first editor of the annual Review of Research in Education (American Educational Research Association) outside of the United States. Luke received the Educational Press Association of American Merit Award (1989) and the American Educational Research Association Book Award in curriculum studies (2005). He has been inducted to the International Reading Association Hall of Fame (2002), was named the IBM/Bulletin Australian Educator of the Year (2004) and was awarded the Gold Medal of the Australian College of Education (2005), Honorary Lifetime Membership of the Queensland Teachers’ Union (2013), Outstanding Research Award from the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (2013), and he delivered the Distinguished Research Address to the 2010 American Educational Research Association meetings. He has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from Simon Fraser University (2005), an honorary PhD from Rajabhat University, Thailand (2002), and an honorary Doctor of Education from James Cook University (2014). In 2013, he chaired and coauthored the most extensive empirical study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school reform to date for the Australian federal government. He is currently stands as an academic mentor to First Nations scholars at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary.
for selected publications, see:
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Luke,_Allan.html
for bibliographic record and citations, see:
http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=O8–Jr8AAAAJ&hl=en
for further biographical notes, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Luke
