User:Stephen Ewen

About me

I hold the role of Citizendium author and have been here since the earliest days of the project.

Education

• M.Ed., Adult Learning and Global Change, University of British Columbia

• B.A., Liberal Arts & Sciences, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University
  • Outstanding Scholar Award - highest award offered per graduating class
  • Thesis: Exogenous Development vs. Endogenous Development in Haiti

• Additional studies, University of the Nations and United States Department of Agriculture Graduate School

Academic interests

Interdisciplinarity, literature, anthropology, politics, philosophy, theology, and education.

Work

I am an instructor of remedial education at a community college. I teach social sciences, literature and reading, writing, and special topics. My pedagogy is that of critical literacy, which Ira Shor defines as

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.[1]