User:Stephen Ewen
About me
I hold the role of Citizendium author and have been here since the pilot project began.
Education
- B.A., Liberal Arts & Sciences, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University
- 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
- 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
Articles I am currently collaborating on
- "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 ideas I am tinkering with
CZ:How to Apply to be an Editor