Awards and Honours
Awards and Honours
1968: Australian Commonwealth Postgraduate Award. Three year scholarship for Ph.D research, James Cook University.
1975 Fullbright Fellowship for post-doctoral study in USA.
1975-76 Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
1980 Australian Research Grants Commission Fellowship for study in USA. Visiting Fellow at Centre for Reading, University of Illinois, (Urbana) and Centre for Language and Literacy, University of Arizona, (Tucson).
1990 International Year of Literacy Medal for ‘Contributions to Australian Literacy Education’
1991 Ethel Hayton Award by the University of Wollongong for Services to the Community (with Dr Jan Turbill)
1995 Awarded the inaugural Garth Boomer Award by the Australian Literacy Educators Association ( previously Australian Reading Association) for Contributions to Literacy Education.
1998 Inducted into the International Reading Association’s Reading Hall Of Fame.
2001 Awarded the Outstanding Educator in Language Arts Award by The Elementary Education Section of the National Council of Teachers of English . (USA)
2002 Life Membership Whole language Umbrella
2006 Carrick Institute National Award For Teaching & Learning in Higher Education ( With Julie Kiggins)
2008 Australian College of Education: Outstanding Achievement in Education Award
2012 International Reading Association’s William S Gray Citation of Merit NSW Department of Educaton’s award for ‘ Meritorious Service to Public Education’
2013. Life membership Primary English Teachers Association of Australia (PETAA)
1968: Australian Commonwealth Postgraduate Award. Three year scholarship for Ph.D research, James Cook University.
1975 Fullbright Fellowship for post-doctoral study in USA.
1975-76 Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
1980 Australian Research Grants Commission Fellowship for study in USA. Visiting Fellow at Centre for Reading, University of Illinois, (Urbana) and Centre for Language and Literacy, University of Arizona, (Tucson).
1990 International Year of Literacy Medal for ‘Contributions to Australian Literacy Education’
1991 Ethel Hayton Award by the University of Wollongong for Services to the Community (with Dr Jan Turbill)
1995 Awarded the inaugural Garth Boomer Award by the Australian Literacy Educators Association ( previously Australian Reading Association) for Contributions to Literacy Education.
1998 Inducted into the International Reading Association’s Reading Hall Of Fame.
2001 Awarded the Outstanding Educator in Language Arts Award by The Elementary Education Section of the National Council of Teachers of English . (USA)
2002 Life Membership Whole language Umbrella
2006 Carrick Institute National Award For Teaching & Learning in Higher Education ( With Julie Kiggins)
2008 Australian College of Education: Outstanding Achievement in Education Award
2012 International Reading Association’s William S Gray Citation of Merit NSW Department of Educaton’s award for ‘ Meritorious Service to Public Education’
2013. Life membership Primary English Teachers Association of Australia (PETAA)