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- I have had a career-long interest in what I refer to as "instructional styles across cultures," or "classroom cultures." This began with my dissertation work at Columbia University in the mid-1970s. Thereafter I maintained a curiosity about this field of study. When I began to teach at a Beijing university in 1986 and subsequently started the drafting of my co-authored book on China (info), which includes a chapter on "Education and Training," my curiosity became active again for a while. But my fascination with this field was permanently rekindled in the late 1990s when I was hired by Pfizer to train their international trainers. One outcome has been that in early
2005 I wrote a 10,000-word paper that was accepted for delivery at an international
conference in Singapore; for an abstract of this paper, click here.
The
full paper is included in International Communication Competencies,
published by Singapore-based Marshall Cavendish Academic (link).
I currently have two books in progress. 1. I am now writing a book tentatively entitled Tactics for Trainers of Adults from Abroad. My co-author is Thailand-based Austrian researcher Dr. Astrid Kainzbauer; like me, her research interest is in instructional styles worldwide. For more details, click here; use BACK to return. 2. I am continuing my research and theory-building in preparation for a major second book that will attempt to answer this question: Within the context of the U.S.A., how did the instructional style paradigm that I call "Learner-Focused" (similar to "progressive" methodologies) come into being, displace the traditional paradigm, gain adherents, and gradually became the reigning pedagogical orthodoxy?Answers definitely are beginning to emerge! So far I have not written anything on this topic but I have a lengthy paper in active progress. - I'd like to make this clarification about my work: The body of knowledge that I am investigating is not a derivative or variation of the U.S. "multicultural education" or "diversity" perspectives. My approach has different roots (cultural anthropology) and my findings lead to recommendations for presenters and instructors that are different from, sometimes contrary to, those offered by people in the diversity/multicultural tradition. - My research is part-time. I am the founder and managing partner of a small but robust consulting firm, to which I am deeply committed. But I am also committed to eventually writing extensively on this topic of instructional styles across cultures, which has held me in its thrall for three decades. Consequently, you can find me once or twice a month prowling the library stacks of Teachers College, Columbia University, on West 120th Street in Manhattan. - If you have a research interest in this field or a closely related one, I invite you to be in contact with me at cornelius@grovewell.com.
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