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Phone: +61 2 9514 3920

Fax: +61 2 9514 3939

E-mail: Colin.Symes @uts.edu.au

Colin Symes is currently a research fellow with RAVL, Resesarch into Vocational and Adult Learning.

Teaching Areas

Education and its socio-cultural foundations

Research & Scholarly Interests

Colin Symes' current research centres on examining the nature of working knowledge, and its relation to educational institutions such as universities. He is currently co-editing a book on this subject for the Open University Press. He is also interested in the relationship between textual practices and work, and the degree to which work practices are mediated through various forms of inscriptionary practices, including language and graphic forms such as diagrams.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Symes, C. with Preston, N., Schools and classrooms: a cultural studies analysis of education, 2nd. edition, Melbourne: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997.

Symes, C. with Sheahan-Bright, R. (ed.), School’s out! Learning to be a writer in Queensland: an anthology in six lessons, Kelvin Grove, Qld.: Queensland University of Technology, 1998.

Symes, C. and Meadmore, D. (ed.) The extra-ordinary school: parergonality and pedagogy, New York: Peter Lang, 1999.

Symes, C., "Writing by numbers: OuLiPo and the algebraics of composition", Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literatur, in press.

Symes, C., "Chronicles of labour: a discourse analysis of diaries", Time and Society, in press.