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Dr. Joseph LO BIANCO Professor of Language and Literacy Education, The University of Melbourne

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 Joseph Lo Bianco is Prof. of Language and Literacy Education at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. He supervises PhD research projects, teaches courses in language planning and supports international research projects in several countries on language and culture studies, language planning and multiculturalism/intercultural education. Since 2011 he has served as senior research advisor a European Commission project on Languages in Urban Communities-Integration and Diversity for Europe (LUCIDE). He wrote Australia’s National Policy on Languages in 1987, the first multilingual national language policy in an English speaking country.

Mitgliedschaften

UNICEF Language and Peacebuilding initiative (Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand). Research Director
Victorian School of Languages
Australian Federation of Modern Language Teacher

Publikationen

Lo Bianco Joseph , Provision, policy and reasoning: The pluralisation of the language education endeavor; in: Choi Julie, Ollerhead Sue (ed.), Plurilingualism in Teaching and Learning :Complexities Across Contexts, 2018
Lo Bianco Joseph, Accent on the positive: Revisiting the ‘Language as Resource’ orientation for bolstering multilingualism in contemporary urban Europe.Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity. John Benjamins Publishing, 2017
Learning from Difference. LEARNING FROM DIFFERENCE: COMPARATIVE ACCOUNTS OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION. Springer Verlag, 2016

Auszeichnungen

Medal for Outstanding Service to Language Teaching, Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations, 2011
College Medal, Australian College of Educators, 2007
Centenary Medal "for service to Australian society & the humanities in literacy planning, 2003