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Faculty Research Profiles: William Cope

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Research Biography

My current research interests include population and community diversity, theories and practices of pedagogy and new technologies of representation and communication, including the 'semantic web'.

Degrees

  • Ph.D., History, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 1987
  • B.A., History, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 1979

Key Professional Appointments

  • Research Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2006--
  • Adjunct Professor, Globalism Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 2006--
  • Director, Common Ground Publishing, Victoria, Australia, 2001--
  • Research Associate, Globalism Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 2001-2005
  • First Assistant Secretary, Dept. of the Prime Minister & Cabinet, Government of Australia, 1995-1996
  • Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Government of Australia, 1995-1996
  • Director, Bureau of Immigration, Multiculral and Population Research, Dept of Immigration & Multicultural Affairs, Government of Australia, 1995-1996
  • Director, Centre for Workplace Communication and Culture, University of Technology Sydney & James Cook University of North Queensland, 1993-1995

Selected Publications

  • Kalantzis, Mary and Bill Cope, New Learning: Elements of a Science of Education, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 304pp.
  • Cope, Bill and Mary Kalantzis, ‘The Social Web: Changing Knowledge Systems in Higher Education’, in Debbie Epstein, Rebecca Boden, Rosemary Deem, Fazal Rizvi and Susan Wright (eds), Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Framing the Future of Higher Education, World Yearbook of Education, Routledge, London, 2008, pp.371-384.
  • Cope, Bill. and Mary Kalantzis (eds),  Ubiquitous Learning, University of Illinois Press, 2008.
  • Cope, Bill and Mary Kalantzis, ‘New Media, New Learning’, International Journal of Learning, Vol. 14, No.1, 2007, pp.75-79.
  • Kalantzis, Mary and Bill Cope, ‘Language Education and Multiliteracies’, in Stephen May and Nancy H. Hornberger (Eds), Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Vol. 1, Springer, 2008, pp.195-211.