School of Teacher Education
Bill Green
BA, DipEd , WAust, MPhil, PhD, Murd.
Position: Professor of Education; Sub-Dean (Research & Scholarship)
Phone: (02) 633 84563
Fax: (02) 633 84824
Campus: Bathurst Office: Allen
House, Room: 2.28, Building: N1.
Email: bigreen@csu.edu.au
Personal Profile
Bill Green is Professor of Education at Charles Sturt University in NSW, Australia, and CSU Strategic Research Professor, associated with the Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning and Education (RIPPLE). He was previously Professor of Applied Curriculum Studies at the University of New England. Prior to that, he worked at Deakin and Murdoch Universities, in Victoria and Western Australia respectively. He is located in the School of Teacher Education on the Bathurst campus. He is currently Co-Editor of the UK-based journal Changing English: An International Journal of English Teaching.
Originally a secondary English teacher, he has worked for over twenty five years in teacher education and educational research, with a specific focus on English teaching, literacy education and curriculum studies. His principal research interests are in curriculum inquiry and literacy studies, curriculum history, particularly the history and politics of English teaching and the English subjects, doctoral research education, and education for rural-regional sustainability, and he has a wide range of publications across these areas. Along with 11 books and monographs and 5 major research reports, he has produced over 40 book chapters and in excess of 60 journal articles. He has been successful in winning a number of Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery and Linkage grants, among others, and is currently working on a ARC Discovery project on rural teaching, ‘incentives’ and teacher education. Overall, he has been awarded over $2 million in competitive research funding over the past ten years.
Publications
Books
- Understanding and Researching Professional Practice, Sense Publishers, 2009.
- Research Training in Doctoral Programs: What Can Be Learned from Professional Doctorates? Evaluations and Investigations Programme, Canberra: Department of Education, Science and Training, 2002. Jointly authored by Erica McWilliam, Peter G. Taylor, Pat Thomson, Tom Maxwell, Helen Wildy and Don Simons.
- Managing Small Group Learning, Newtown: Primary English Teachers Association, 2002. With Jo-Anne Reid [principal author] and Robyn English.
- Doctoral Education and Professional Practice: The Next Generation?, Armidale: Kardoorair Press, 2001. Jointly edited with Tom Maxwell and Peter Shanahan.
- Teachers and Technoliteracy: Managing Literacy, Technology and Learning in Schools, St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 2000. Jointly authored by Colin Lankshear and Ilana Snyder with Bill Green.
- Designs on Learning: Essays on Curriculum and Teaching by Garth Boomer, Canberra: Australian Curriculum Studies Association, 1999. Edited, with an Introduction, by Bill Green.
- Details of Book Publications prior to 1999 are available here.
Monographs
- Spaces and Places: The NSW Rural (Teacher) Education Project, Wagga Wagga, NSW: Centre for Information Studies Press, Charles Sturt University, 2008. Edited by Bill Green. 406 pages.
- Managing Machines? Educational Administration and Information Technology, Geelong, Victoria: Deakin University Press, 1995. Jointly-authored with Chris Bigum.
- Curriculum, Technology and Textual Practice, Geelong: Deakin University Press, 1993 [edited volume].
Research Reports
- Spaces and Places: The NSW Rural (Teacher) Education Project, Bathurst: Charles Sturt University, The University of New England and the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, [2 Vols]. Authors: Bill Green, Cathryn McConaghy, Norman McCulla, Colin Boylan, Will Letts, TW Maxwell, Matti Novak and Andrew Wallace. (Forthcoming/2007)
- More Than Just Literacy? Literacy, Information Technology and Educational Disadvantage, Adelaide: South Australian Department of Education, Training and Employment, 2000. Jointly authored with Barbara Comber.
- Site Studies: Information Technology, Literacy and Educational Disadvantage Project, Vol 2, Adelaide: Department of Education, Training and Employment of South Australia [251 pages]. Jointly edited with Barbara Comber (University of South Australia).
- Details of Research Reports published prior to 1999 are available here.
Book Chapters
- “Challenging Perspectives, Changing Practices: Doctoral Education in Transition”, in David Boud and Alison Lee (eds), Changing Practices in Doctoral Education, London and New York: 2008.
- “Re-Reading the Historical Record: Curriculum History and the Linguistic Turn”, in Bernadette Baker (ed), New Curriculum Histories, Sense Publishers, 2008. Jointly authored with Phil Cormack.
- “Methods (s) in Our Madness? Poststructuralism, Pedagogy and Teacher Education”, in Anne E. Phelan & Jennifer Sumsion (eds), Provoking Absences: Critical Studies in Teacher Education, Sense Publishers, 2007. Jointly authored with Jo-Anne Reid.
- “Writing Place: Discursive Constructions of the Environment in Children’s Writing and Artwork about the Murray-Darling Basin”. In Frank Vanclay, Jeff Malpas, Matthew Higgins and Adam Blackshaw (eds), Making Sense of Place: Exploring concepts and expressions of place through different senses and lenses. Canberra: National Museum of Australia. Jointly authored with Phil CORMACK, & Jo-Anne REID, 2007.
- “Space, Equity and Rural Education: A ‘Trialectical’ Account”. Chapter in Kalervo N. Gulson and Colin Symes (eds) , Spatial Theories of Education: Policy and Geography Matters, London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Co-authored with Will Letts.
- “Afterword”, in Brenton Doecke, Mark Howie and Wayne Sawyer (eds), Only Connect: English Teaching, Schooling and Community, Kent Town: Wakefield Press/AATE, 2006, pp 370-373.
- “Curriculum, Public Education and the National Imaginary: Re-Schooling Australia?” Chapter in Alan Reid and Pat Thomson (eds), Towards a Public Curriculum, Brisbane: PostPressed with the Australian Curriculum Studies Association, 2003, pp 17-32.
- “(Un)Changing English: Past, Present, Future?”, in Brenton Doecke, David Homer and Helen Nixon (eds), English Teachers at Work: Narrative, Counter Narratives and Arguments, Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2003, pp 135-148.
- “Curriculum Inquiry in Australia: Towards a Local Genealogy of the Curriculum Field". Invited chapter in William F. Pinar (ed), Handbook of International Curriculum Research, Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003, pp 123-141.
- “Literacy Education and the New Technologies: Hypermedia or Media Hype?”, in Geoff Bull and Michelle Anstey (eds), The Literacy Lexicon, [Second Edition], Sydney: Pearson Education Australia, 2003, pp 209-224.
- “Learning Difficulties and the New Literacy Studies: A Critical Literacy Perspective", in Janet Soler, Janice Wearmouth & Gavin Reid (eds), Contextualising Difficulties in Literacy Development: Exploring Politics, Culture, Ethnicity and Ethics, London & New York: Routledge Falmer & the Open University, 2002, pp 102-114. Jointly authored with Alex Kostogriz.
- “English Teaching, 'Literacy' and the Post-Age: On Compos(IT)ing and Other New Times Metaphors”, in Catherine Beavis and Cal Durrant (eds), P(ICT)ures of English: English Teaching, Literacy and New Technologies, Wakefield Press (AATE), 2001.
- “Education and the Asia-Pacific Discourse”. Reprinted in Stephen Ball (Ed.) Major Writings in the Sociology of Education, London and New York: Routledge, 2000, pp 117-136. Jointly authored with Michael Peters and Patrick Fitzsimmon.
- “Doctoral Education, Professional Practice and the Creative Arts; Scholarship in a New Key?”, in Bill Green, TW Maxwell and Peter Shanahan (eds), Doctoral Education and Professional Practice: The Next Generation?, Armidale: Kardoorair Press, 2001, 109-138. Jointly authored with Adrian Keirnander
- “Organisational Knowledge, Professional Practice and the Professional Doctorate at Work”, in Legitimations of Knowledge and the New Production of Meaning, John Garrick and Carl Rhodes (eds) 2000, London & New York: Routledge, pp 117-136. Jointly authored with Alison Lee and Marie Brennan.
- “The Abuses of Literacy: Educational Policy and the Construction of Crisis”, in James Marshall and Michael Peters (eds), Education Policy, Glasgow: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 1999, pp 763-787. Jointly authored with Bob Lingard, Allan Luke and Barbara Comber.
- “Introduction: Garth Boomer – Curriculum Worker for the Nation”, in Bill Green (ed), Designs on Learning: Essays on Curriculum and Teaching by Garth Boomer, Canberra: Australian Curriculum Studies Association, 1999, pp 1-12.
- “Educational Research, Disciplinarity and Postgraduate Pedagogy: On the Subject of Supervision”. In Allyson Holbrook and Sue Johnston (eds), Supervision of Postgraduate Research in Education, Coldstream, Victoria: Australian Association for Research in Education, 1999, pp 207-222. Jointly authored with Alison Lee.
- Details of Book Chapters published prior to 1999 are available here.
Journal Articles
- “Curriculum History, ‘English’ and the New Education; or, Installing the Empire of English”, Pedagogy, Culture and Society, Vol 16, No 3, Autumn, 2008. Co-authored with Phillip Cormack.
- “Knowing Practice in English? Research Challenges in Representing the Professional Practice of English Teachers”, English Teaching: Practice and Critique, Vol 6, No 3, December, 2007, pp 4-21. Jointly written with Brenton Doecke, Alex Kostogriz, Jo-Anne Reid and Wayne Sawyer.
- “Writing Place in English: How a School Subject Constitutes Children’s Relations with the Environment”, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, forthcoming/2007. Co-authored with Phil Cormack.
- “English, Literacy, Rhetoric: Changing the Project?”, English in Education, Vol 40, No 1, 2006, pp 7-19.
- “Unfinished Business? Subjectivity and Supervision”, Higher Education Research & Development, Vol 24, No 2, May, 2005, pp 151-163.
- “Post-Curriculum History?”, Curriculum Perspectives, Vol 25, No 1, April, 2005, pp 51-55.
- “Teacher Education for Rural-Regional Sustainability: Changing Agendas, Challenging Futures, Chasing Chimeras?”, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, Vol 32, No 3, 2004, pp 255-273. With Jo-Anne Reid.
- “Curriculum, ‘English’ and Cultural Studies; or, Changing the Scene of English Teaching”, Changing English: Studies in Reading and Culture, Vol 11, No 2, 2004, pp 291-305.
- “Displacing Method(s): Historical Perspective in the Teaching of Reading”, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, Vol 27, No 1, 2004, pp 12-26. With Jo-Anne Reid.
- “Tele-Pedagogy and the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge”, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2003, pp 205-223.
- “Filling in a Historical Gap: Post-Primary English Curriculum in South Australia – from the 1920s to the 1950s”, English in Australia, No 136, Autumn 2003, pp 67-78. With Phillip Cormack, Pat Grant and Rosie Kerin.
- An Unfinished Project? Garth Boomer and the Pedagogical Imagination”, Opinion: Journal of the South Australian English Teachers’ Association, Vol 47, No 2, 2003, pp 13-24.
- “No Difference?”, Literacy Learning in the Middle Years: Secondary Thoughts, Vol, 11.No 2, June 2003.
- "Constructing the Teacher and Schooling the Nation", History of Education Review, Vol. 31, No 2, 2002, pp 30-44. Jointly authored with Jo-Anne Reid.
- "A Literacy Project of Our Own", English in Australia, No 134, H June, 2002, pp 25-32.
- “The PhD and the Autonomous Self: Gender, Rationality and Postgraduate Pedagogy”, Studies in Higher Education, Vol 25, No 2, 2000, pp 135-147. Jointly-authored with Lesley Johnson and Alison Lee.
- “Literacy and the New Technologies in School Education: Meeting the L(IT)eracy Challenge?”, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, Vol 23, No 2, 2000, pp89-108. Jointly-authored with Cal Durrant.
- “Learning from Our Past…”, English in Australia, No 127-128, 2000, pp 111-119. Jointly authored with Phil Cormack and Jo-Anne Reid.
- “Faculty Power: On the Role and Significance of Subject-Departments, with Specific Reference to the English Department”, METAphor, Issue 4, 2000, pp 10-15.
- “Curriculum, Literacy and the State: Re-‘Right’-ing English?, Pedagogy, Culture and Society (formerly Curriculum Studies), Vol 7, No 3, 1999, pp 385-407.
- Details of Journal Articles prior to 1999 are available here.
Research Grants & Funded Projects
- Renewing Rural Teacher Education: Sustaining Schooling for Sustainable Futures. ARC Discovery Grant (2008-2010). Chief Investigators: Professor Jo-Anne Reid (CSU), Dr Simone White (Deakin), Professor Bill Green (CSU), Associate-Professor Maxine Cooper (UniBallarat), Dr Graeme Locke (Edith Cowan) and Ms Wendy Hastings (CSU)
- Literacy and the Environment: A Situated Study of Multimediated Literacy, Sustainability, Local Knowledges and Educational Change. ARC Linkage Grant (2004-2006). Chief Investigators: Professor Barbara Comber (UniSA), Dr Phillip Cormack (UniSA), Professor Bill Green (CSU), Associate Professor Jo-Anne Reid (CSU), DR Helen Nixon (UniSA). Total Funding: $195,000.
- Reimagining the Ecosocial Sustainability of the Murray-Darling Basin. Joint submission of the Hawke Institute of the University of South Australia and Charles Sturt University in the 2003 ARC Network Scheme for seed grant funding. Funding: $10,000
- Productive Partnerships for Teaching Quality: Quality Improvement, School-Community Practice and Teacher Education in and for Rural and Remote Settings. ARC Linkages Grant (2002-2004). Chief Investigators: Professor Bill Green (CSU), Dr Norman McCulla (NSWDET), Dr Colin Boylan (CSU), Dr Cathryn McConaghy (UNE), Dr Tom Maxwell (UNE), Dr Andrew Wallace (CSU), Professor Bob Meyenn (CSU), Mr Wayne Chandler (NSWDET), Dr Paul Brock (NSWDET). $378,000 (ARC). Total Funding: $950,000 NB: R(T)EP
- Schooling Australia: A Curriculum History of English Teaching, Teacher Education and Public Schooling - from Federation to World War 2. Australian Research Council Large Grant (2001-2003). Chief Investigators: Professor Bill Green, Dr Jo-Anne Reid, Mr Phil Cormack [University of South Australia]. $115,380.
- Identifying and Analysing Processes in Schools Producing Outstanding Educational Outcomes, to Assist National Renewal in Junior Secondary School Education. SPIRT Grant (2001-2003): Strategic Partnerships with Industry – Research and Training Scheme. Chief Investigators: Associate-Professor John Pegg, Dr Paul Brock [DET], Associate-Professor Steve Dinham [UWS], Professor Bill Green, Dr David Laird, Dr Ted Redden, Mr Wayne Sawyer [UWS]. $282,860 (ARC). Total funding: approx $950,000.
- (Re)constructing the Teacher? English Teaching, Teacher Education and State Schooling: A Critical-Historical Investigation of Public Education in New South Wales. $9000. Australian Research Council Small Grant. 2000. Chief Investigators: Professor Bill Green and Dr Jo-Anne Reid.
- Assisting the Transition to Tertiary Study: Enhancing Academic Literacies in First Year Primary Teacher Education. 1999-2000. $40,000. University of New Teaching Development Grant. Chief Investigators: Dr Jo-Anne Reid and Professor Bill Green (School of Curriculum Studies) and Robyn Muldoon (Academic Skills Office).
- Details of Research Grants & Funded Projects awarded prior to 1999 are available here.
Special Issues
- ‘English in the Antipodes’, Changing English: Studies in Literacy and Culture, 2008. Guest Editor: Bill Green.
- ‘Literacy, Place, Environment: A Special (Forever) Issue’, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, Vol 30, No 2, June 2007. Guest Editors: Phil Cormack, Bill Green and Helen Nixon.
- ‘Renewing Teacher Education?’ Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, Vol 32, No 3, November 2004. Guest Editor: Bill Green.
- ‘Postgraduate Studies/Postgraduate Pedagogy’, Australian Universities’ Review, Vol 38, No 2, 1995. Guest Editors: Alison Lee and Bill Green.
- ‘The Textual Turn’, Australian Educational Researcher, Vol 21, No 3, December, 1994.