User:Stephen Ewen

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Me in my office, 2006.

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

• "Exogenous Development vs. Endogenous Development in Haiti"

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

• Lifelong autodidact

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

Academic Interests

I have very broad interests. Among them are:

• Interdisciplinarity, literature, anthropology, political economy, politics, philosophy, theology, and pedagogy.
• Micronesia, the Caribbean, Latin America

Work

I have many years international work experience. One of my main passions is adult education. My pedagogy is that of critical literacy in the vein of Paulo Freire. One of Freire's co-authors, Ira Shor, perfectly defines the pedagogy 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]

I teach remedial literature and reading, writing, social sciences, and special topics.

Articles of which I am Primary Author

• Bonnie Hicks
• Samuel Kaboo Morris

Articles I am currently collaborating on

• Jesus

"Writing a 'balanced', well-synthesized, non-argumentative, non-point-of-view article will always present a challenge for authors/editors, but never a challenge that a mature, professional, motivated writer(s) cannot meet. And meeting that challenge achieves the quality CZ aspires to." - (Quote by User:Anthony.Sebastian, from the CZ forums)

CZ policy stuff I am tinkering with

• CZ:How to Apply to be an Editor
• User:Stephen Ewen/Scratch Pad for CZ:How to get started with the Citizendium pilot

My Handy Links

• Special:Whatlinkshere/Bonnie Hicks
• User:Stephen Ewen/Scratch Pad
• User:Stephen Ewen/Scratch Pad2