Colin lankshear biography
- He was originally trained as an educational philosopher at the University of Canterbury, with interests in political and moral philosophy.
- My main research and writing interests are in the area of literacy and new technologies.
- Colin Lankshear is an Adjunct Professor at Mount Saint Vincent University.
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My main research and writing interests are in the area of literacy and new technologies. With my main collaborator, Michele Knobel, I edit a books series called "New Literacies", for Peter Lang. My wider interests include British motorcycles (up to the 1970s, although I'd love a late model Triumph), producing my own coffee on our small patch of coffee land in Mexico, hanging out in Newfoundland, dogs and building. A key formative influence on my work was the time I spent between late 1988 and early 1990 living in a peasant community in Nicaragua. I hope to return there for a decent period in the near future and write about life in the same village more than 20 years apart. My Spanish is passable, and keeping on the move within the Americas provides an interesting perspective on life. Until recently I worked in a range of Australian universities, as well as enjoying time in Mexico's wonderful UNAM and in McGill University in Montreal. These days I am working part time teaching Masters courses (face to face and at distance) for Mount St Vincent University in Cana
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There, for fortune: An ‘accidental’ academic life – Introduction
The Invitation: Michael A. Peters
I was a colleague of Colin’s at Auckland University during the 1980s where in 1982 he was responsible for establishing the journal ACCESS, which is now part of PESA and in the process of relaunching as Access: Contemporary Issues in Education, having not lost an issue in its diverse 40 year Australasian history. I have had the pleasure of working with him and his partner Michele Knobel on occasions over the years. He is an authentic and inspirational intellectual who has searched for meaning through his literacy and research work over many years. It was a real privilege to engage in conversation with him.
Biographical fragments
Between 1976 and 1991 Colin worked at the University of Auckland, before taking up a research director position at Queensland University of Technology from 1993-1998. In 1999 he moved to Mexico doing freelance work at distance for Central Queensland University. Between 2001 and 2004 he was a part-time Professorial Research Fellow at the Uni
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A New Literacies Reader
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Social and Cultural Studies of New Literacies from an Educational Perspective
- New Literacies: Early Statements
- A Starting Point
- “New Literacies” and a New Technologies Emphasis
- “New Literacies” through a Wider Lens: Beyond a Focus on New Technologies Alone
- New Literacies without New Technologies at All
- Adopting a Focus on New Literacies
- (a) Thinking about “New Literacies” Conceptually and Theoretically
- (b) Mapping Some Dimensions of a New Literacies Research Space
- (i) “Let’s see” Research
- (ii) “Try on” Research
- (iii) “Educationally applicable” Research
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