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"Cultural literacy is revealed through awareness, understanding and participation in culture and its many dimensions via our interactions with and deliberations of its constituents and social products. This process leads to acceptance and appreciation of that outside ourselves together with a greater cognitive sense of self." — OC
"Learning is an active process that is realized through lived-experience, interactions and reflection. Both teacher and learner play an intricate part in this ecosystem. Appropriately, the classroom becomes a platform for noticing and discovering, mastering and meaning.
As educators, our role is to understand students’ needs, create a heuristic environment and equip our learners with the skills for succeeding in learning cultures and life." — OC
American Anthropological Association
Society for Cultural Anthropology
American Ethnological Society
Society for Linguistic Anthropology
TESOL International Association
Per Diem ESL Tutor/Substitute
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Instructor
Cal State University, Dominguez Hills
Carson, California
Lecturer
University of California, Irvine
irvine, California
Instructor
King Saud University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Instructor
Al Yamamah University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Folklore Teacher
State Specialty School #294
St. Petersburg, Russia
Research Assistant
Archaeological Field Study
Poleski Region, Russia
MA Teaching
SIT Graduate Institute
BA Folk Art
Academy of Culture
St. Petersburg, Russia
Cultural Literacy:
Theory and Practice*
Cultural Adaptation:
Strategies and Application*
Telling Lives: Living Histories Through Narrative Inquiry*
Media Literacy:
Self-Awareness as a Means for Intelligent Interaction
The Circle of Life:
Russian Music and Traditions as Seasonal Rites of Passage
Narrative Inquiry:
A Socio-Cultural Approach to Teaching English
* Prepared to teach
Intercultural Communication:
Denial, Minimization, Integration
The Saudi Learner:
Field Notes and Reflections
Narrative Inquiry as a Window to Literacy
Certificate of Recognition
King Saud University
Certificate of Appreciation
King Saud University
Certificate of Excellence
King Saud University
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Courses
Culture and Identity
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Cultural Ecology
Cultural Theory
Holism
Culture and Music
Sociolinguistics