Areas of Instruction:
Structural Inequality and Diversity
Teaching and Learning
Leadership and Change
Media Studies
Systems thinking and intervention
Area of Specialization
Organizational Theories
Capacity Building
Interpersonal Communication and Collaboration
Rethinking Schools and Organizations
Creativity and Problem Solving
Technology, Learning and Teaching
Scholarly & Professional Interests:
Developing my approach to teaching and learning: the Khepera Method, a culturally based, ethical approach to life—an African-centered field theory
Knowledge production as a foundation for teaching and learning
Research and writing about how to make my Khepera Method a foundation for problem based education at all levels
Research concerning redefining the role of the teacher/professor and the school/university
Research concerning developing a school/institute where the curriculum is developed directly from problems that communities and individuals send in for resolution
Professional Memberships:
Songhoy Wanado-Aroo to the Paramount Chief (Dr. Hassimi O. Maiga) of the Songhoy Nation
Curriculum Developer, University Community Academy (Atlanta, GA)
Member of Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Collaboratory (HASTAC)
Member of Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
Member of American Council for Education Internationalization Laboratory
Member of Association for Internet Researchers (AIR)
Honors and Awards:
Selected as Fielding Representative to establish relationship with Unity University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Appointed by Interim Provost as Fielding representative to the American Council on Education Internationalization Laboratory (summer 2011)
Keynote speaker at the United Negro College Fund Conference on Capacity Building (November 2011)
Appointed Songhoy Wanadu-Aroo to the Songhoy Nation by Dr. Hassimi O. Maiga
Publications:
Writing at the Crossroads: Black World Essays (OWA Press, 2011)
Khepera Calling: A 21st-Century Allegory (OWA Press, 2011)
Presentations:
“Knowledge Production as Learning,” presentation made to the faculty at Unity University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (December 28, 2011)
“The Khepera Method Approach to Problem-Based Learning,” presentation made the UNCF Institute for Capacity Building Conference (Nov. 2011)
“The Khepera Method Approach to Problem-Based Learning,” presentation made to the Board of the University Community Academy (July 2011)
Other Professional Activities:
President, One World Archives (1998 to present)
Associate Professor, Clark Atlanta University (1998–2002)
Distance Education Director for the APEX Museum (1997–1999)
Professor and Chair, Department of African American Studies, University of Cincinnati (1991–1995)
Founding Director of the Institute for African American Studies and Associate Professor, University of Georgia (1988–1991)