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Notes On Contributors 
  
  

 
 
 

Leslie Limage  

UNESCO Education Sector Programme Specialist (retired). Literacy 
and Basic Education policy and practice specialist. Currently: International 
and Comparative Education Consultant.  Former Visiting Professor of 
Comparative Education, UCLA and Arizona State University, Secondary 
school and adult education and literacy tutor, United Kingdom. Graduate 
degrees from University of Paris and University of London Institute of 
Education in Comparative Education, Economics of Education and 
Sociology of Education. 
Numerous publications, studies, reports and public-speaking in literacy, 
education policy reform, education in post-conflict and reconstruction, 
diversity and education. contact: leslie.limage@wanadoo.fr  
 

J. Lo Bianco  

J. Lo Bianco is professor of language and literacy education at the 
University of Melbourne. He was the author of the 1987 National Policy on 
Languages, which  addressed adult literacy, English and languages other 
than English across education and training sectors. He directed the National 
Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia between 1990 and 2002.  At 
the University he specialises in research and teaching in sociolinguistics as 
well as policy on literacy and language questions. Current projects include 
children’s early writing, mass English teaching in China and language policy 
in SE Asia, especially Sri Lanka, Malaysia, China and Thailand.  He is 
President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.