User:Stephen Ewen

About me

I hold the role of Citizendium author and have been here since the pilot project began.

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

I plan to enter an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in 2007.

Academic Interests

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

Work

I have many years international work experience. I am currently an instructor at a U.S. community college. I teach remedial literature and reading, writing, social sciences, 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]

Articles of which I am Primary Author

• Bonnie Hicks