Adjunct Professor Len Unsworth

Adjunct Professor - School of Education; Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education

Len Unsworth

Phone: +61 2 6773 2677

Email: len.unsworth@une.edu.au

Biography

Len Unsworth is a member of the English, Literacies and Languages Academic Team. Within this group, he specializes in English and Literacy.

Qualifications

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

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.