Colin Lankshear
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Colin Lankshear is Professor of Literacy and Technologies in James Cook University and internationally acclaimed scholar in new information technologies.
He has worked several years at University of Auckland and lived also in Mexico doing freelance work for Central Queensland University. Between 2001 and 2004 he was a part time Professorial Research Fellow at University of Ballarat. His current job in James Cook University is half time and he is a part time Visiting Scholar at McGill University.
He works in language and literacy research, with a particular interest in ‘new’ literacies associated with the explosion of the internet. He was originally trained as an educational philosopher with interests in political and moral philosophy. His doctoral thesis looked at freedom in education. In the middle of his PhD he got interested in a conception of freedom as liberation that had been developed by the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire.
[edit] External links
- Colin Lankshear's blog with Michelle Knobel at http://everydayliteracies.blogspot.com/
- Colin Lankshear's articles and book links at http://www.geocities.com/c.lankshear/
