John Willinsky
University of British Columbia

Areas of Interest

• SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE, LITERACY AND LITERATURE
• ANTI-RACISM AND POSTCOLONIALISM
• CURRICULUM HISTORY AND THEORY
• POST-STRUCTURALIST THEORY
• TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION

Research Activities

Public Knowledge Project
The Public Knowledge Project, with funding from SSHRC, HRDC, and the Max Bell Foundation, employs a team of computer, information and social scientists, in its work with scholarly societies, professional organizations, and policymakers on developing and researching online systems that hold some promise of improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research.

Recently Published Work

• For full-text access to recent publications, scroll down the Public Knowledge Project's Publications and Presentations page.
• Willinksy, J. (2001). After literacy: Essays. New York: Peter Lang.
• Willinsky, J. (2000). If only we knew: Increasing the public value of social science research. New York: Routledge.
• Willinsky, J. (1999). Technologies of Knowing: A Proposal for the Human Sciences. Boston: Beacon.
• Willinsky, J. (1998). Learning to divide the world: Education at Empire's end. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
• Gaskell, J. & Willinsky, J. (Eds.) (1995). Gender in/forms curriculum: From enrichment to transformation. New York:
  Teachers College Press.
• Willinsky, J. (1994). Empire of words: The reign of the OED. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Willinsky, J. (1991). The triumph of literature/the fate of literacy: Teaching English in the high school. New York:
  Teachers College Press.
• Willinsky, J. (1990). The new literacy: Redefining reading and writing in the schools. New York: Routledge.

John Willinsky is currently the Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire's End, which won Outstanding Book Awards from the American Educational Research Association and History of Education Society, as well as of the more recent titles, Technologies of Knowing and If Only We Knew: Increasing the Public Value of Social Science Research. He directs the Public Knowledge Project, which is dedicated to developing online conference, journal, and indexing systems that improve the scholarly and public quality of academic research, as well as playing at academic conferences with an international blues band of scholar-musicians.