Areas of Interest

• Socio-cultural aspects of language, literacy and literature
• Anti-racism and postcolonialism
• Curriculum history and theory
• Post-structuralist theory
• Technology in education

Research Activities

• Public Knowledge Project
  The Public Knowledge Project, with funding from SSHRC, HRDC, and the Max Bell Foundation, employs a team of computer, information and social scientists, in its work with scholarly societies, professional organizations, and policymakers on developing and researching online systems that hold some promise of improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research.

Recently Published Work

For open access to the full-text of recent publications, go to Public Knowledge Project's Publications

Willinsky, J. (2006). The access principle: The case for open access to research and scholarship. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Willinksy, J. (2001). After literacy: Essays. New York: Peter Lang.

Willinsky, J. (2000). If only we knew: Increasing the public value of social science research. New York: Routledge.

Willinsky, J. (1999). Technologies of Knowing: A Proposal for the Human Sciences. Boston: Beacon.

Willinsky, J. (1998). Learning to divide the world: Education at Empire's end. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Gaskell, J. & Willinsky, J. (Eds.) (1995). Gender in/forms curriculum: From enrichment to transformation. New York: Teachers College Press.

Willinsky, J. (1994). Empire of words: The reign of the OED. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Willinsky, J. (1991). The triumph of literature/the fate of literacy: Teaching English in the high school. New York: Teachers College Press.

Willinsky, J. (1990). The new literacy: Redefining reading and writing in the schools. New York: Routledge.