Allan LUKE



Queensland University of Technology
Australia

 

Currently based in Queensland University of Technology, Allan Luke was the Centre's foundation dean from 2003-2005. Prior to that, Prof Luke was Dean at the University of Queensland in Australia and Chief Advisor to the Queensland Minister of Education. As Deputy Director General of Education for Queensland Schools in 1999-2000, he was instrumental in major research and policy initiatives including The New Basics, Literate Futures, and Productive Pedagogies. He also taught in primary and secondary schools in British Columbia before joining the staff at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia.

Prof Luke is author and editor of 15 books including, most recently, Struggles Over Difference: Texts, Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Asia Pacific (State University of New York Press) and Bourdieu and Literacy Education (Lawrence Erlbaum, forthcoming). He is currently co-editor of Teaching Education (Routledge), the Review of Research in Education (AERA), the Asia Pacific Journal of Education (Routledge) and Pedagogies: An International Journal (Lawrence Erlbaum).



 Education

BA, University of California, Santa Barbara (1972)
Teaching Certificate, Simon Fraser University (1976)
MA, Simon Fraser University (1980)
PhD, Simon Fraser University (1985)


 Research Interests

  • Multiliteracies

  • Linguistics

  • Educational policies


 Selected Publications

Luke, A. (2003). After the marketplace: Evidence, social science and educational research. Australian Educational Researcher, 30(2), 87-107.

Luke, A. (2003). Literacy and the other: A sociological approach to literacy research and policy in multilingual societies. Reading Research Quarterly, 38(1), 132-141.

Luke, A. (2004). Two takes on the critical. In B. Norton & K. Toohey (Eds.), Critical pedagogy and language learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Luke, A. (in press). Notes on the future of critical discourse studies. Critical Discourse Studies, 1(1).

Luke, A. (in press). Teaching after the marketplace: From commodity to cosmopolitanism. Teachers College Record.