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===About me=== | ===About me=== | ||
I | ;Education | ||
I am currently accepted to a postgraduate Certificate in Postsecondary Literacy Instruction from the University of Cincinnati[http://www.cech.uc.edu/programs_majors.php?p=program_detail&id=57] and will probably follow it with a PhD in the field. Prior, I was awarded an M.Ed. in Adult Learning and Global Change from the University of British Columbia,[http://www.edst.educ.ubc.ca/programs/algc.html] and prior that graduated highest-awarded in my class from Florida Atlantic University Honors College[http://www.honorscollege.edu] with concentrations in [[anthropology]] and [[political science]]. I began all this by acheiving a [[GED]] diploma at age 32. | |||
;Experience | |||
I have numerous years international experience, dispersed through [[Latin America]], [[Micronesia]], and [[Haiti]], and it has profoundly marked all I do. | |||
Currently, I am a remedial [[Adult education|adult educator]] at a community college in the [[United States]], and also do some consulting work related to program development for remedial learners. My [[pedagogy]] is decidedly eclectic yet with a bent for [[critical literacy]], which [[Ira Shor]] perfectly defines as facilitating | |||
<BLOCKQUOTE>habits of thought, reading, writing, and speaking which go beneath surface meaning, first impressions, dominant myths, official pronouncements, traditional cliches, received wisdom, and mere opinions, to understand the deep meaning, root causes, social context, ideology, and personal consequences of any action, event, object, process, organization, experience, text, subject matter, policy, mass media, or discourse.[http://www.lesley.edu/journals/jppp/4/shor.html]</BLOCKQUOTE> | <BLOCKQUOTE>habits of thought, reading, writing, and speaking which go beneath surface meaning, first impressions, dominant myths, official pronouncements, traditional cliches, received wisdom, and mere opinions, to understand the deep meaning, root causes, social context, ideology, and personal consequences of any action, event, object, process, organization, experience, text, subject matter, policy, mass media, or discourse.[http://www.lesley.edu/journals/jppp/4/shor.html]</BLOCKQUOTE> | ||
[[Image:Saipanese Boonie Dog.jpg|right|130px|"Siren" is a Saipanese "Boonie Dog"]] | [[Image:Saipanese Boonie Dog.jpg|right|130px|"Siren" is a Saipanese "Boonie Dog"]] | ||
I | My primary academic interests combine adult education, community-based development, and globalization studies, with a particular focus on [[Global South]]/[[Global North]] interplays. | ||
Although my principle focus is on practice, I have contributed to Suzanne T. Bell and Yukiko Inoue, ''Educational Technology in the 21st Century: The Case of the Asia Pacific Region,'' and several minor publicatons. | |||
;Hobbies | |||
I enjoy the outdoors generally and am a lifelong [[sportfishing|sportfisherman]], both fresh and salt water, and boast several 10 pound [[largemouth bass]] and one nearly 15 pounds. Indoors, I like films of every genre, particularly [[science fiction]]. I also enjoy a great variety of music and am a multi-instrumentalist since childhood, having enjoyed some performing success as a bass guitarist. | |||
===Contributions=== | ===Contributions=== | ||
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*[[Anthropology]] | *[[Anthropology]] | ||
*[[Butler]] - an approved article. | *[[Butler]] - an approved article. | ||
*Others at [[User:Stephen Ewen/Userplan|my userplan]] | |||
If I show up at an article you've been working on and decide to become substantially involved with it ''as an author'', know that I am a perfectionist and am envisioning the day when our approved articles are independently evaluated side-by-side with Britannica's and Wikipedia's. | If I show up at an article you've been working on and decide to become substantially involved with it ''as an author'', know that I am a perfectionist and am envisioning the day when our approved articles are independently evaluated side-by-side with Britannica's and Wikipedia's. | ||
Revision as of 01:21, 19 January 2008
My home PC has died so I'll be scarcer than usual until its replacement arrives in the mail.
Until then, if you see me around much on weekends or nights, it is because of Knoppix!
