| UOW’s two Reading Hall of Fame inductees, Associate Professor B... UOW’s two Reading Hall of Fame inductees, Associate Professor Brian Cambourne and Dr Jan Turbill from the Faculty of Education |
Turbill UOW’s second Reading Hall of Fame inductee
22 May 2008 | Nick Hartgerink
Only four Australians have been inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame and the University of Wollongong now has the distinction of having two of those four members.
Faculty of Education Senior Fellow Dr Jan Turbill has been honoured as the first Australian female to be inducted, joining the faculty’s Principal Fellow Associate Professor Brian Cambourne in the Hall of Fame.
Dr Turbill, Professor Cambourne and faculty colleagues Associate Professor Pauline Harris, Dr Lisa Kervin and lecturer Wendy Bean has just returned from the annual International Reading Association Convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr Turbill was invited to be a Featured Speaker at the conference, which attracted about 20,000 participants from around the world, while Professor Cambourne, Dr Kervin and Ms Bean also gave presentations.
“I believe having this (Hall of Fame) honour bestowed now on two Faculty of Education members demonstrates the strength and international reputation of literacy education that the faculty has long had and will continue to have given its strong language and literacy team,” Dr Turbill said.
She added that further evidence of the faculty’s standing came from it winning the contract to run the Australian Government Summer School for Literacy and Numeracy teachers.
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