Changing Literacies (Changing Education)

Book by Lankshear, Colin, Gee, James Paul, Knobel, Michele, Searle, Chris

Colin Lankshear began his academic career in New Zealand, as an educational philosopher. His interest in the work of Paulo Freire led him to researching literacy within school, community, and workplace settings spanning the First and Third Worlds. He is currently Professor and research coordinator in language and literacy education at the Queensland University of Technology. His books include Literacy, Schooling and Revolution, Critical Literacy: Politics, Praxis and the Postmodern (edited with Peter McLaren), and The New Work Order: Behind the Language of the New Capitalism (with James Paul Gee and Glynda Hull).

James Paul Gee is the Jacob Hiatt Professor of Education at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. His books include Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideologies in Discourses, The Social Mind, and The New Work Order.

Michele Knobel lectures in language and literacy education at the Queensland University of Technology. Her research and publishing interests address children's classroom and out-of-school language and literacy practices, technological literacies, and second language learning.

A former Headteacher of a secondary school, Chris Searle is now a Lecturer in English in Education at Goldsmiths College, London.