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PROF JOSEPH LO BIANCO



Contact Details

Organization: Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Position: CHAIR IN LANGUAGE AND LITERACY EDUCATION
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Homepage: http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/cgi-bin/public/staff_profile.cgi?id=10221
Work: 8344 8346/8412
Mobile: 0407 798 978
Fax: 8344 8612

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Sociology of education; Relation of schooling and higher education to language and literacy policy Australia
Education policy; Bilingual education, immigrant and indigenous Australia
Curriculum studies: Other social sciences and humanities; Languages and multiculturalism and literacy Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States of america Centre for Applied Linguistics Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Economics Monash University 31-Dec-1975
Company Directors University of Sydney 31-Dec-1996
Migration Studies Monash University 31-Dec-1978
Bachelor of Education La Trobe University 31-Dec-1987
Master of Arts University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1986
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University 31-Dec-2001

Honours

Honour Date Awarded
Member of the Order of Australia 1998

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD) 31-Dec-1992
Fellow of the Australian College of Education (FACE) 31-Dec-1997
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) 31-Dec-1999

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Medal International Literacy Year 31-Dec-1990
Other (Award) Goethe Institut/French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Collaboration Award 31-Dec-1992
Other (Award) Ordine di Merito della Repubblica Italiana Commendatore for Australian-Italian Cultural Relations 31-Dec-1999
Medal Contribution to Australian Society and to Literacy Policy Centennial Medal 31-Dec-2003

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
WESTERN REGION CLUSTER CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN LOTE Chief Investigator ESSENDON KEILOR COLLEGE 01/01/2006
DASSH DESKTOP ARCHIVAL REVIEW - INNOVATIVE APPROACHES IN THE PROVISION OF LANGUAGES OTHR THAN ENGLISH IN AUSTRALIAN HIGHER EDUCATION Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND 31/05/2006
CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN LOTE (CELOTE) Chief Investigator ESSENDON KEILOR COLLEGE 01/01/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Books

  • Educational Psychology
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Pearson Education Australia(Frenchs Forest)
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  • Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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Book Chapters

  • Advantage and identity: Neat discourse but troubled union: Singapore's medium of instruction policy


    Year: 2007
    Book: Language, Capital, Culture: Critical Studies Of Language in Education in Singapore
    Publisher: Sense Publishers(Rotterdam)
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  • Protecting English in an anglophone age


    Year: 2007
    Book: International Handbook of English Language, Part One
    Publisher: Springer(New York)
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  • Contrasting and comparing minority language policy: Europe and Australia
    Year: 2007
    Book: Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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  • New Times, World Kids, Third Place
    Year: 2007
    Book: Transforming Language Education
    Publisher: Kurosio Publishers(Tokyo)
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Journal Articles

  • Emergent China and Chinese: Language planning categories


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Language Policy
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 3-26
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  • Our (not so) polyglot pollies


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-17
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  • Teaching Chinese, teaching in Chinese, and teaching the Chinese


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Language Policy
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 95-117
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  • The project of forging socio-cultural community in language


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Chinese Sociolinguistics
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1-20
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  • Australia's language policy and ecology of Chinese language education
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Chinese Teaching in the World
    Volume: 3
    Issue: July
    Page numbers: 120-131
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  • Discourses in interaction: The intersection of literacy and health research internationally
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Literacy & Numeracy Studies
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 19-37
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  • Review of M. G. Clyne, Australia's Language Potential
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-4
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Bilingual and Multilingual Education in National Language Policy
    Year: 2007
    Event name: The Bilingual and Multilingual in the National Language Policy Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of The Bilingual and Multilingual in the National Language Policy Conference
    Page numbers: 9-23
    Publisher: The Royal Institute of Thailand(Bangkok)
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  • Is English still a language?
    Year: 2007
    Event name: English in South East Asia: Challenges and Changes
    Conference Publication: English in South East Asia: Refereed proceedings of the 11th English in South East Asia Conference
    Page numbers: 38-48
    Publisher: Curtin University of Technology(Perth)
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Reports

  • Language, Place and Learning
    Year: 2007
    Customer: PASCAL International Observatory
    Publisher: RMIT University(Melbourne)
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  • Seizing the Moment: A Strategy Plan for Chinese Language and Culture Studies in Alberta
    Year: 2007
    Customer: Chinese Language Education Forum
    Publisher: Faculty of Education, University of Alberta(Edmonton)
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Computer Software Products

  • esplora!
    Year: 2007
    Version:: 1
    Publisher: Thomson Learning Australia(Melbourne)
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Audio Visual Recordings

    Publications in 2006

    Book Chapters

    • Educating for Citizenship in a Global Community: World Kids, World Citizens and Global Education
      Year: 2006
      Book: Towards a Global Community: Educating for Tomorrow's World
      Publisher: Springer
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    Journal Articles

    • Arguing for Perspective in LOTE
      Year: 2006
      Journal: Languages Victoria
      Volume: 10
      Issue: 1
      Page numbers: 16-27
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    Reports

    • Collaboration and Innovation in the Provision of Languages Other Than English in Australian Universities
      Year: 2006
      Customer: Department of Education, Science and Training
      Publisher: Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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    Publications in 2005

    Book Chapters

    • Including discourse in language planning theory
      Year: 2005
      Book: Directions in Applied Linguistics
      Publisher: Multilingual Matters(Clevedon)
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    • Multilingual education: prospects, problems and issues at a time of greater multiculturalism
      Year: 2005
      Book: Language in Multicultural Education
      Publisher: Information Age Publishing(Greenwich)
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    Journal Articles

    • Globalisation and national communities of communication
      Year: 2005
      Journal: Language Problems and Language Planning
      Volume: 29
      Page numbers: 109-135
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    • No longer a (foreign) language: The rhetoric of English as a post-identity language
      Year: 2005
      Journal: Journal of Chinese Sociolinguistics
      Volume: 2
      Issue: Serial No. 5
      Page numbers: 17-40
      Publisher: Association of Chinese Sociolinguistics(Beijing)
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    • Review: The changing face of electoral politics in Sri Lanka (1994-2004) by L. Jayasuriya
      Year: 2005
      Journal: Dialogue
      Volume: 24
      Issue: 2
      Page numbers: 111-112
      Publisher: Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia(Canberra)
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    • There's more to language than words
      Year: 2005
      Journal: EQ Australia
      Volume: Spring 2005
      Page numbers: 20-21
      Publisher: Curriculum Corporation(Melbourne)
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    • Using ICT in adult literacy education: Guidelines for reform
      Year: 2005
      Journal: Literacy & Numeracy Studies
      Volume: 14
      Issue: 1
      Page numbers: 17-32
      Publisher: University of Technology(Sydney)
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    Reports

    • Asian languages in Australian schools: Policy options
      Year: 2005
      Customer: Melbourne Asia Policy Papers - Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies
      Report No:: No 7, May 2005
      Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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    • Successful Engagement in Early Literacy Learning: Implications, Practices and Insights
      Year: 2005
      Customer: Catholic Education Office
      Publisher: Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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    • Using information and communication technologies in adult literacy education: New practices, new challenges
      Year: 2005
      Customer: Deaprtment of Education, Science and Training, Australian Government
      Publisher: National Centre for Vocational Education Research(Adelaide)
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    Publications in 2004

    Books

    • Resources for cultural language learning
      Year: 2004
      Publisher: CAE Book Groups(Melbourne)
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    Book Chapters

    • Language planning as applied linguistics
      Year: 2004
      Book: The handbook of applied linguistics
      Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Malden)
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    • Widening access and literacy
      Year: 2004
      Book: Researching widening access to lifelong learning
      Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer(Abingdon)
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    Journal Articles

    • Multiculturalism and language policy in education: from clever to bland
      Year: 2004