Literacy and Education Forward and Back after Neoliberalism, ‘Globalism’ and Backlash

Dr. Allan Luke is an educator, researcher, and theorist studying literacy, multiliteracies, applied linguistics, and educational sociology and policy.

Dr. Luke has written or edited over 15 books and more than 200 articles and book chapters.

Dr. Luke, with Peter Freebody, originated the Four Resources Model of literacy in the 1990s.

Part of the New London Group, he was coauthor of the “Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures” published in the Harvard Educational Review (1996). He is Emeritus Professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia and Adjunct Professor at Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada.