ProfessorKen Cruickshank

DipEd(Sydney), GradDip(TESOL)(UTS), PhD(UTS), BA(Sydney), MA(UTS)

Ken Cruickshank is Professor in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in Sydney School of Education and Social Work (SSESW). His principal work concerns language and literacy in multilingual contexts. His first book Teenagers, Literacy and School (Routledge, 2006) drew on his doctoral study of literacy practices in Arabic-speaking families in Sydney and explored how young people’s languages and literacies were extended or excluded in school contexts.

Professor Cruickshank has also focused on community/heritage languages. He is Director of the Sydney Institute for Community Languages Education. SICLE was established in 2017 in an agreement between the university and the NSW government with the aims of building research in the field of community/ heritage languages education, providing professional learning pathways for teachers and building capacity in community languages schools.