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Greetings! I have been at Citizendium since the private pilot began. I hold the roles of Assistant to the Chief Constable, author, and informally Media Assets Lead.
About me
Work
I am an adult educator at a community college in the United States, and also do some consulting work for developmental and service-learning programs for adult learners. I have numerous years international experience, dispersed through Latin America, Micronesia, and Haiti, and it has marked all I do.
My pedagogy is decidedly eclectic yet with a bent for critical literacy, which Ira Shor perfectly defines as facilitating
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]
Academic interests
On one level, my academic interests combine adult education, community-based development, and globalization and policy studies, with a particular focus on Global South/Global North interplays, including the role of technology. On another perhaps more important level, I am interested to facilitate the highest possible learning outcomes for every misprepared and second language student, and am a very ardent student of my students. Learning theories and processes are of principle interest to me. On still another level, my interests are very broad and knowledge fascinates me. To me, the best educators are experts in their field but are also exceptionally well-rounded in their knowledge bases, and I try to be that.
Education
I am working toward a doctorate in Literacy from the University of Cincinnati,[2] and am considering Literacy as Freedom as my dissertation topic. Prior, I was awarded an M.Ed. in Adult Learning and Global Change from the University of British Columbia,[3] and prior that graduated highest-awarded in my class from Florida Atlantic University Honors College[4][5] with concentrations in anthropology and political science after making my way through a community college with honors. I began all this after achieving a GED diploma in my early thirties.
Publications
My principle focus to date is on practice, including tailored curriculum writing for programs, not academic research publishing. Given that, 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 publications.
Why am I here?
Given the above, I hope the answer to the question of why I am involved with Citizendium is evident. In short, educators should want high quality, neutral (in this sense), and free educational resources available to all, and Citizendium holds great promise in these regards. Educators educate.
Hobbies
 Oh, the wonders of Photoshop.  Recreationally, I enjoy the outdoors and am a lifelong sportfisherman, both fresh and salt water. Of remark, I've caught 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.
CZ Contributions
- Also see my userplan.
Most of my contributions are in some way or another related to developing Citizendium. e.g., see The Upload Wizard for a current project. I just don't very often have time to really bunker down and write articles—I am here, first, to help you write them. Still, I am a major contributor to:
When I author at CZ
If I show up at an article you've been working on and decide to become substantially involved with it as an author, please understand 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. This could get good!
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