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Professor Len Unsworth

Acting Head of School
Professor in English and Literacies Education
Centre for Research in English and Multiliteracies Education (CREME)
, Faculty of The Professions, School of Education

Qualifications

BA(UQld), BEdSt(UQld), MEd Hons1(USyd), PhD (USyd)

Contact

Email: len.unsworth@une.edu.au
Room: FEHPS (E7) 337
Phone: 02 6773 2677 (or +61 2 6773 2677 overseas)

Len Unsworth is a member of the Humanities Teaching and Research Group (TRG). Within this group, he specializes in English and literacy.

Research interests

Literacy education from pre-school to matriculation; children's and adolescents' literature and literacy development; e-literature for children and adolescents; information and communication technology and literacies; multiliteracies; visual literacies; critical social literacies; language and literacy in curriculum area learning and teaching; systemic Functional Linguistics in literary and literacy research and education; functional grammar in the school curriculum; genre theory; and the semiosis of explanation in education.

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