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===About me=== | ===About me=== | ||
I am a remedial [[Adult education|adult educator]] at a community college in the [[United States]]. I hold an M.Ed. in Adult Learning and Global Change from the University of British Columbia, [[Canada]]; prior, I graduated highest-awarded in my class from Florida Atlantic University Honors College with concentrations in [[anthropology]] and [[political science]]. I have numerous years international experience, dispersed through [[Latin America]], [[Micronesia]], and [[Haiti]], and it has marked all I do. My [[pedagogy]] is eclectic | I am a remedial [[Adult education|adult educator]] at a community college in the [[United States]]. I hold an M.Ed. in Adult Learning and Global Change from the University of British Columbia, [[Canada]]; prior, I graduated highest-awarded in my class from Florida Atlantic University Honors College with concentrations in [[anthropology]] and [[political science]]. 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 bent for [[critical literacy]]. [[Ira Shor]], perfectly defines critical literacy 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> | ||
