Cert Teach (Kedron Park Teachers College/QUT), BEd (U South Aust), Grad Dip Ed (Reading) (U South Aust), MEd (Hons) (UNE), PhD (Griffith)

Head of School of Education

Career Summary

I spent twenty years as a primary teacher, including three years as an advisor, working in three Australian states before moving into the tertiary sector. I have taught in undergraduate and postgraduate core and elective literacy units as well as supervised research higher degree students. I have more than 80 publications including monographs, book chapters, refereed journal articles, conference papers, reports and other articles, and have been a co- or sole-investigator on research and consultancy projects totalling more than $1 million. I have extensive experience in the professional development of teachers and tutors working in schooling, post-compulsory, workplace and community contexts in Australia, the UK and Ireland. I have served on state-based curriculum committees at primary, secondary and post-compulsory levels and have been a member of state and national advisory committees on research and curriculum development projects.

Monographs

Castleton, G. & McDonald, M. (2002) A decade of literacy: policy, programs and perspectives. Melbourne: Language Australia.
Castleton, G. & McDonald, M. (2002) Multiple Literacies and Social Transformations. Melbourne: Language Australia.
McDonald, M. & Castleton, G. (2001) Mentoring in adult learning contexts: Partners in dialogue. Research into Practice Monograph Series. Melbourne: Language Australia.

Edited collection

Castleton, G., Gerber, R. & Pillay, H . (Eds). (2006) Improving Workplace Learning: Emerging International Perspectives, New York: Nova Science Publishers.

Castleton, G. (2006) Putting language, literacy and learning to work: exploring (e)merging discourses. In G. Castleton, Gerber, R. & Pillay, H. (Eds) Improving Workplace Learning: Emerging International Perspectives, New York: Nova Science Publishers, pp135-151.

Castleton, G. (2005) Inspecting the Consequences of Virtual and Virtuous Realities of Workplace Literacy. In M. Herrington & A. Kendal (Eds) Insights from Research and Practice for adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL practitioners, Leicester: NIACE, pp547-555.

Castleton, G. & Wyatt-Smith, C. (2005) Investigating digital literacies: resolving dilemmas of researching multimodal technologically-mediated literacy practices. In B. Maloch, J. Hoffman, D. Schallert, C. Fairbanks & J. Worthy, (Eds.), Fifty-fourth Yearbook of the National Reading Conference. Chicago: National Reading Conference, pp 144-156.

Holland, C. & Castleton G. (2002) Basic Skills and Union activity in the UK and Australia in B. Spencer (Ed) Unions and Learning in a Global Economy: International and Comparative Perspectives. Toronto: Thompson Educational Press, pp 89-99.

Castleton, G. (2001) The role of literacy in the lives of homeless people in Australia. In J. Crowther, M. Hamilton, C. McCrae, L. Tett (Eds) Powerful Literacies. Leicester: NIACE, pp 56-68.

Castleton G. (2001) Workplace literacy: (e)merging discourses at work. In, J. LoBianco & R. Wickert (Eds) Australian Policy Activism in Language and Literacy. Melbourne: Language Australia, pp 163-178.

Wyatt-Smith, C. & Castleton, G. (2005) Examining how teachers judge student writing: An Australian case study, Journal of Curriculum Studies Vol 37, No 2, pp 131-154.

Wyatt-Smith, C., Castleton, G. & Ryan, J. (2004/05) New Research Methodologies for Researching New Literacies International Journal of Learning Vol 11, pp 421-429.

Wyatt-Smith, C. & Castleton, G. (2004) Factors affecting writing achievement: mapping teacher beliefs, English in Education, Vol 38, No 1, pp 37-61.

Castleton, G., Wyatt-Smith, C., Cooksey, R. & Freebody, P. (2003) The nature of teachers’ qualitative judgments: a matter of context and salience, Part Two: 'Out-of-context' judgment, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, Vol 26, No 2, pp 33–42.

Wyatt-Smith, C., Castleton, G., Freebody, P. & Cooksey, R. (2003) The nature of teachers‚ qualitative judgments: a matter of context and salience. Part One: ‘In-context’ judgment, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, Vol 26, No 2, pp 11–32.

Castleton, G. (2002) Workplace literacy as a contested site of educational activity. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Vol 45, No 7, pp 556–566.

Castleton, G. Sanguinetti, J. & Falk, I (2001) Wanted: a new adult literacy policy for Australia. Literacy and Numeracy Studies: An International Journal in the Education and Training of Adults. Vol 11, No. 1, pp 3–20.

Castleton, G. (2000) Workplace Literacy: Examining the virtual and virtuous realities in (e)merging discourses on work. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. Vol 21, No 1, pp 91-104.

Castleton, G. (2000) Adult Literacy in Australia: reading beyond the figures. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy. Vol 23, No.1. pp. 37–49.

Research Interests

My research interests are in contemporary policy and practice, including assessment, in literacy education in a range of settings including classrooms, workplaces and community contexts. I use a range of qualitative research methodogies drawing on analytic technigues from applied ethnomethodology, discourse analysis and post-structuralism.

Funded research and consultancies include