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The Sydney School is a genre-based literacy pedagogy that began developing in August 1979 at the Working Conference on Language in Education. This conference, organised by Michael Halliday, is noted by J. R. Martin as being the place at which ideas about genre analysis as a lens to observe the way students are taught to write in primary and secondary school were formed. [8]
In 2011, the Faculty was renamed from the Faculty of Arts to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, following the inclusions of the Discipline of Economics (from the Faculty of Economics and Business, which was renamed as the University of Sydney Business School), the Centre for International Security Studies (CISS), and the Graduate School of Government (GSG).
Ackroyd moved to Brisbane in 1965, when she was appointed the foundation professor of the new Department of Japanese Language and Literature. [4] She helped to develop the University of Queensland's School of Japanese during the 1970s and 1980s. She was influential in building the program into one of Australia's main centres for Japanese studies.
The Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts (SMSA) is the longest running School of Arts (also known as a "Mechanics' Institute") and the oldest continuous lending library in Australia. [ 2 ] Founded in 1833, the school counted many of the colony's educated elite as members.
Margaret Beryl Clunies Ross FAHA (born 24 April 1942) is a medievalist who was until her retirement in 2009 the McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney. Her main research areas are Old Norse-Icelandic Studies and the history of their study. [1]
Sydney University Press publishes 20-25 new titles each year. SUP's publishing scope includes series in archaeology, animal studies, public policy, Indigenous music, China studies, Australian literature and Celtic studies. [3] The press also publishes in Australian history, biography, urban planning and public health.
Stephen Thomas Knight MA (Oxon.), PhD (Sydney), FAHA, [1] FEA (born 21 September 1940) was, until September 2011, a distinguished research professor in English literature at Cardiff University; [2] and is a professorial fellow of Literature at the University of Melbourne. [3]
Auchterlonie was born in Sunderland, County Durham in England.In 1927 when she was 12 years old, her family moved to Australia. [1]Educated in both England and Australia, Auchterlonie went on to study at the University of Sydney, where she completed a first-class honours and then an M.A. in English.