Faculty Research Profiles: William Cope

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• Research Biography
• Degrees
• Key Professional Appointments
• Activities & Honors
• Selected Publications

Research Biography

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

Activities & Honors

• Plenary Session Chair, UCLA, Unknown, 2004
• Plenary Session Chair, Havana, Cuba, Unknown, 2004
• Keynote Speaker, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, Unknown, 2003
• Session Chair, Institute of Education, University of London, Unknown, 2003

Selected Publications

• Kalantzis, M., & Cope, B. (2008). New learning: Elements of a science of education. Cambridge University Press, NY.
• Cope, B., & Kalantzis, M. (2008). The social web: Changing knowledge systems in higher education. In D. Epstein, R. Boden, R. Deem, F. Rizvi, & S. Wright (Eds.), Geographies of knowledge, geometries of power: Framing the future of higher education. World Yearbook of Education (pp. 371-384). London: Routledge.
• Cope, Bill. and Mary Kalantzis (eds),  Ubiquitous Learning, University of Illinois Press, 2008.
• Kalantzis, M., & Cope, B. (2008). Language education and multiliteracies. In S. May & N. H. Hornberger (Eds.), Encyclopedia of language and education: Vol. 1. (pp. 195-211). New York: Springer.
• Kalantzis, Mary and Bill Cope, ‘From Literacy to Multiliteracies: Learning to Mean in the New Communications Environment’, English Studies (South Africa).