Allan Luke is an educator, researcher, and theorist studying multiliteracies, linguistics, family literacy, and educational policy. Dr. Luke has written or edited over 14 books and more than 140 articles and book chapters. Luke, with Peter Freebody, originated the Four Resources Model of literacy education. He is currently a Research Professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.
Luke received his Bachelor of Arts from t...
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Allan Luke is an educator, researcher, and theorist studying multiliteracies, linguistics, family literacy, and educational policy. Dr. Luke has written or edited over 14 books and more than 140 articles and book chapters. Luke, with Peter Freebody, originated the Four Resources Model of literacy education. He is currently a Research Professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.
Luke received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1972. Luke received his teaching certificate in 1976 and his M.A. in 1980, from Simon Fraser University in Canada. He taught primary and secondary school in British Columbia and lectured at Simon Fraser and British Columbia Institute of Technology before taking a position at James Cook University, Australia in 1984. He received his Ph. D. from Simon Fraser University in 1985.
Luke continued to teach at James Cook University until 1995. From 1996 to 2003, he served as Dean of Education at the...
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