Associate Professor Phil Cormack

Curriculum Vitae

Complete list of publications

POSITIONS HELD:

• Key Researcher
  (Hawke Research Institute - HRI)


• Key Researcher
  (Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures - LPLC)


• Associate Professor
  (School of Education)

Hawke Research Institute (HRI)

Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures (LPLC)

Schooling Australia Website

LPLC Publications page - with downloadable links to conference presentations etc

• Literacy and identity
• Literacy and adolescents
• Historical studies of literacy and curriculum
• Literacy curriculum including assessment
• Research methods and practitioner research

Australian Literacy Educators Association

Australian Association for Research in Education

Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society

Australian Curriculum Studies Association

American Educational Research Association

National Council for Teachers of English

International Reading Association

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Master of Education (Literacy and Language Education)

Graduate Diploma in Education (Literacy and Language Education)

Bachelor of Education

Diploma in Teaching (Primary)

• Education of adolescents (middle schooling)
• Literacy and language education
• Education of students living in poverty
• History of education
• Critical discourse analysis

     

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Cormack, P., Green, B., & Reid, J-A. (2008). River literacies: Discursive constructions of place and environment in children's writing about the Murray-Darling Basin. In F. Vanclay, J. Malpas, M. Higgins & B. Adam (Eds.), Making sense of place: Exploring concepts and expressions of place through different senses and lenses. Canberra: National Museum of Australia.

Green, B., & Cormack, P. (2008). Literacy, nation, schooling: Reading (in) Australia. In D. Trohler, T. S. Popkewitz & D. F. Larabee (Eds.), The child, the citizen and the promised land: Comparative visions in the development of schooling in the long 19th century.

Cormack, P., & Comber, B. (2007). Doing justice: Young people's representations of the Murray-Darling Basin. In A. Mackinnon, S. McKenzie, J. McKay & E. Potter (Eds.), Fresh water: New perspectives on water in Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

Cormack, P. & Green, B. (2007/forthcoming). Re-reading the historical record: Curriculum history and the (post¬) linguistic turn. In B. Baker (Ed.), New curriculum histories. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Comber, B. & Cormack, P. (2007). Constituting the teacher of reading in contemporary Australian literacy debates. In R. Openshaw & J. Soler (Eds.) Reading across international boundaries: History, policy and politics. Greenwich, CT: Information Age.

Cormack, P., Green, B., & Reid, J.-A. (2007/in press). Writing Place: Discursive Constructions of the Environment in Children’s Writing and Artwork about the Murray-Darling Basin. In F. Vanclay, J. Malpas, M. Higgins & B. Adam (Eds.), Making sense of place: Exploring concepts and expressions of place through different senses and lenses. Canberra: National Museum of Australia.

Cormack, P. (2005). Middle schooling: For which adolescent? In C. Marsh (Ed.), Curriculum controversies: Point and counterpoint 1980-2005 (pp. 272-278). Deakin West, ACT: Australian Curriculum Studies Association.

Cormack, P. (2003). Imagining the national subject: English and the post-primary school child in early twentieth-century South Australia. In B. Doecke, D. Homer & H. Nixon (Eds.), English teachers at Work: Narratives, counter-narratives and arguments. Adelaide: AATE/Interface & Wakefield Press.

Comber, B., Cormack, P., & O’Brien, J. (2001). Schooling disruptions: The case of critical literacy. In C. Dudley-Marling & C. Edelsky (Eds.), The fate of progressive language policies and practices (pp. 83-104). Urbana, Illinois: National Council of Teachers of English.

Badger, L., Cormack, P., & Hancock, J. (Eds.). (1992). Success stories from the classroom Pt 1. Rozelle: Primary English Teaching Association.

Badger, L., Cormack, P., & Hancock, J. (1992). Success stories from the classroom Pt 2. Rozelle: Primary English Teaching Association.

Cormack, P. (Ed.). (1991). Literacy: Making it explicit, making it possible. Rozelle: Australian Reading Association.

                       

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Cormack, P. (2008). Tracking local curriculum histories: The plural forms of subject English. Changing English, 15(3), 275-291.

Green, B., & Cormack, P. (2008). Curriculum History, 'English' and the New Education; or, Installing the Empire of English? Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 16(3), 253-267.

Green, B. & Cormack, P. (2007). Writing place in English: How a school subject constitutes children’s relations to the environment. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 30(2), 85-101.

Cormack, P. (2006). Reading and the primary English curriculum: An historical account. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 29(1), 115-131.

Cormack, P. (2005). Researching curriculum history. Curriculum Perspectives, 25(1), 55-59.

Cormack, P., Grant, P., Kerin, R., & Green, B. (2003). Filling in a historical gap: Post-primary English curriculum in South Australia from the 1920s to the 1950s. English in Australia, 136, 67-78.

Green, B., Cormack, P., & Reid, J.-A. (2000). Putting our past to work ... English in Australia, 127-128, 111-117.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Cormack, P., & Sellar, S. (2006, 29 Nov 2006). .(Re)conceptualising Middle Years Pedagogy. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Adelaide

Cormack, P. (2006, 21-24 May) Tracking English as a curriculum field and its role in the constitution of the adolescent subject. Paper presented at the Second World Curriculum Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland.

Cormack, P., & Green, B. (2005, 10-15 April). A Problem Subject? English/Literacy, Middle Schooling and Curriculum History. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.

Cormack, P. (2005, 10-15 April). Formations of a problem: Adolescence and schooling in the early twentieth century. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.

Cormack, P. (2003, July 5-8). English/literacy and anxiety about the future: A case-study from the turn of the 20th century. Paper presented at the Eighth Conference of the International Federation for the Teaching of English, Melbourne, Australia.

Cormack, P., & Green, B. (2003, 30 November - 4 December). Curriculum history, 'English' and the New Education in early twentieth-century Australia, or, on installing the Empire of English. Paper presented at the Symposium 'English in the Antipodes: English Teaching, National Schooling and Post-Imperial History' at the Combined Conference of Australian Association for Research in Education/New Zealand Association for Research in Education.

Cormack, P., & Green, B. (2003, 10-13 September). Curriculum History, 'English' and the New Education in the Early Twentieth-Century; or, Installing the Empire of English? Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Heriot-Watt University, Glasgow, Scotland.

Cormack, P. (2002, April 1-5). The subject of English: Constructing a new child in the discourses of ‘New Education’ in the early twentieth century. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association 2002 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Cormack, P. (2001, 29 September-1 October). Forming the English Subject in early twentieth century South Australia. Paper presented at the Education Futures and New Citizenships, 10th national ACSA Biennial Conference, Canberra, ACT.

Nichols, S., & Cormack, P. (2001, 29 September-1 October). Literacy for the future? Mapping the literacy requirements of the senior secondary curriculum. Paper presented at the Education Futures and New Citizenships, 10th national ACSA Biennial Conference, Canberra, ACT.

RESEARCH REPORTS

Cormack, P., Chartres, M., Hattam, R., & Comber, B. (2004). An Evaluation of the 2003 South Australian Literacy and Numeracy Tests. Adelaide: Australian Education Union.

Cormack, P. (2004). The Students At Risk of Not Completing the SACE (STAR 3) Project: Final Report. Adelaide: Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia. Students at risk of not completing the SACE (STAR 3)

Cormack, P., & Nichols, S. (2001). Modes of learning: Mapping the literacies of senior secondary schooling. Adelaide: Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia.

Cormack, P., Kerin, R., & Comber, B. (2000). Summary and findings from the second phase of the Students At Risk of Not Completing the SACE Project. Adelaide: Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia. Students at risk of not completing the SACE (STAR 2).

Cormack, P., & Comber, B. (1999). Overview and analysis of the school-based research in the students at-risk of not completing the SACE project. Adelaide: Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia. Students at risk of not completing the SACE (STAR 1).

Cormack, P. (1998). Classroom Perspectives on Talk: A Report on Collaborative Research with Teachers, Vol 2, Classroom Discourse Project Canberra City: Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs.

Cormack, P., Wignell, P., & Nichols, S. (1998). Overview and Summary: Vol 1, Classroom Discourse Project. Canberra City: DEETYA.

Cormack, P., Johnson, B., Peters, J., & Williams, D. (1998). Authentic Assessment: Implications For Teaching and Learning. Belconnen, ACT: Australian Curriculum Studies Association.

Cormack, P. (1996). From Alienation to Engagement: Opportunities for Reform in the Middle Years of Schooling: Theoretical Constructions. (Vol. 2). Belconnen, ACT: Australian Curriculum Studies Association.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Education

• Education
• Literacy
• Middle Years Schooling