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EDITORS ASSOCIATE REVIEWS EDITOR
James Paul Gee is the former Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and now the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University, USA. He is the author of many books and articles in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, literacy studies, and learning theory, including work on video games, literacy, and learning. His books include: Social Linguistics and Literacies (1990, Third Edition 2007); The Social Mind (1992); The New Work Order (with Glynda Hull and Colin Lankshear, 1996); An Introduction to Discourse Analysis (1999, Second Edition 2005); What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Literacy and Learning (2003); Situated Language and Learning (2004); and Good Video Games and Good Learning (2007). Contact: jgee@education.wisc.edu Michele Knobel is Professor of Education at Montclair State University (USA), where she co-ordinates the graduate and undergraduate literacy programs, and an Adjunct Professor of Education at Central Queensland University (Australia). She has worked in teacher education in Australia, Mexico, Canada and the USA. Michele’s research interests include school students’ everyday literacy practices and digital technology use. Her recent books include New Literacies: everyday practices and classroom learning (with Colin Lankshear, second edition, Open University Press), an edited collection called A New Literacies Sampler (with Colin Lankshear, Peter Lang Publishing), and A Handbook for Teacher Research (also with Colin Lankshear, Open University Press). She is joint editor (with Julie Coiro, Colin Lankshear and Don Leu) of The Handbook of Research on New Literacies (2007). Contact: knobelm@mail.montclair.edu Colin Lankshear is Professor of Literacy and New Technologies at James Cook University in Australia and a Visiting Scholar at McGill University, Canada. His current research, writing and teaching interests are mainly in the area of social practices mediated by new computing and communications technologies. He is the author and editor of numerous books, chapters, and articles in the areas of literacy studies and educational appropriations of new technologies. His books include Literacy, Schooling and Revolution (1987/1989), Changing Literacies (1997), The New Work Order: behind the language of the new capitalism (with James Paul Gee and Glynda Hull, 1996), Teachers and Technoliteracy (with Ilana Snyder, 2000), and several books with Michele Knobel, including A Handbook for Teacher Research (2004), New Literacies (2003, second edition 2006) and A New Literacies Sampler (2007). He also joint edits book series for Peter Lang Publishing (‘New Literacies’) and Paradigm Press (‘Interventions’). Contact: c.lankshear@ballarat.edu.au Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) and the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom). He won a first in Philosophy and completed a PhD in the philosophy of education, focusing on Ludwig Wittgenstein, at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) where he was appointed to a personal chair in 2000 and held a joint position between Auckland and Glasgow. He writes at the intersection of fields in philosophy, education, policy and politics, with a strong interest in theories of postmodernity, knowledge and economy, and implications for education. He has written over forty books and some three hundred articles and chapters, including most recently Showing and Doing: Wittgenstein as pedagogical philosopher (Paradigm, 2007) (with Nick Burbules and Paul Smeyers), Truth and Subjectivity: Foucault, education and the culture of self (Peter Lang, 2007), Why Foucault? New Directions in Educational Research (Peter Lang, 2007), Building Knowledge Cultures: educational and development in the age of knowledge capitalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), all with Tina (A.C.) Besley, and Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of the University (Sense, 2007). Contact: mpet001@uiuc.edu Kurt Squire is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, in the Educational Communications and Technology division of Curriculum and Instruction. He currently directs the Games, Learning, and Society Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is a former Montessori and primary school teacher who, before coming to Wisconsin, was Research Manager of the Games-to-Teach Project at MIT and Co-Director of the Education Arcade. He earned his doctorate in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University; his dissertation research examined students’ learning through a game-based learning program he designed around Civilization III. In addition to writing over 50 scholarly articles and book chapters he has given dozens of talks and invited addresses in North America, Europe, and Asia. Squire’s current research interests center on the impact of contemporary gaming practices on learning, schooling and society, particularly developing role playing game systems for learning. . Contact: kurt.squire@gmail.com Dana Wilber is an assistant professor of literacy at Montclair State University in New Jersey, USA. She received her doctorate in communication and education, with a focus on new literacies, from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2005. Her research interests include the new literacies practices of adolescents, particularly high school and college students as well as the specific uses of collaborative technologies like blogging, wikis, and social networking sites. She has written about new literacies research and theory in a variety of publications including the forthcoming Handbook of Research on New Literacies, the second edition of the Handbook of Literacy and Technology, Educational Technology magazine, INNOVATE online journal, and Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading. She is hard at work on a book tentatively titled iWrite: Understanding writing in a networked world for Heinemann Books. Books for review should be sent to Michele Knobel & Dana Wilber, Department of Early Childhood, Elementary and Literacy Education, College of Education & Human Services, 3173 University Hall, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ 07043, USA. Contact: wilberd@mail.montclair.edu |
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