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'''Greetings!''' I have been at Citizendium since the pilot began. I hold the roles of ''Assistant to the Chief Constable'', ''author'', and informally ''Media Assets Lead''. | '''Greetings!''' I have been at Citizendium since the pilot began. I hold the roles of ''Assistant to the Chief Constable'', ''author'', and informally ''Media Assets Lead''. | ||
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I am an adult educationalist at a U.S. community college and hold an M.Ed. from the University of British Columbia, Canada. Prior, I graduated highest-awarded in my class from Florida Atlantic University Honors College. | I am an adult educationalist at a U.S. community college and hold an M.Ed. from the University of British Columbia, Canada. Prior, I graduated highest-awarded in my class from Florida Atlantic University Honors College. I have numerous years international experience, dispersed through Latin America, Micronesia, and Haiti, and it has marked all I do. My pedagogy is eclectic yet with a strong bent for [[critical literacy]]. [[Ira Shor]], perfectly defines critical literacy as facilitating | ||
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<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 have very broad interests. Peter Cook once said, ''"I am specializing in the Universe and all that surrounds it."'' I plan doctoral studies. | |||
I greatly enjoy [[fishing]] | For recreation, I greatly enjoy [[fishing]], the outdoors generally, and [[science fiction]]. | ||
===Contributions=== | ===Contributions=== | ||
Most of my contributions are "meta"-related or behind-the-scenes. I just don't have time very often to really bunker down and ''write articles''—I am here, first, to help ''you'' write them. Still, I am a major contributor to: | |||
*[[Anthropology]] | *[[Anthropology]] | ||
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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. | ||
Everything else that follow is to help me do my work on the wiki. | |||
==Constabulary links== | ==Constabulary links== | ||
