Global Academic with expertise in Pedagogy, Digital Literacy, & Qualitative Research Methods
Here in Indonesia, where the overall population is reportedly about 87% Muslim (according to the CIA World Factbook page on Indonesia, which matches our findings with the secondary students who responded to our survey), I have had the opportunity to see — and hear — Islamic prayer rituals and to learn more about Muslims’ values…
In the last month, Puji and I, with the help of Anjar (a super-helpful student pursuing his Master’s in English Education at UNNES), have collected more than 500 survey responses from secondary students in the area. We’re learning a great deal from them about when and how they access technology, for what purposes, where they…
Through his research to discover what makes people really happy, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has come to understand the impact that finding extreme pleasure and lasting satisfaction in one’s work can have. Being in a state of flow – what he describes as the intensity, or “ecstasy,” and other worldly, out of body state that occurs “when…
Bringing the Warner Writing Camp model to FBS to build community Last week, Puji and I, with logistical help from a committee of her colleagues and with generous financial support from AMINEF/Fulbright host engagement project funds, introduced UNNES Faculty of Languages and Arts (FBS) to the Warner Writing Camp model. Back at the University of…
How’s the food over there? Are you able to get what you need, especially given your diet? What do you miss most from home? What are your favorite Indonesian foods? I get these kinds of questions often, and this entry shares some of my responses. A true joy of travel involves sampling foods from different…
Since coming to Indonesia in September, I’ve been connecting with and learning from university lecturers and students, teachers and young people in elementary, junior high, and senior high school classrooms, fanfiction writers, pre-service teachers, policy academy instructors, concerned parents, literacy researchers and more – and when I tell them that I study young people’s digital…
A Warner School – Fulbright Reunion One weekend last month (14 – 18 November) provided an opportunity that Puji and I had been looking forward to for a while – a chance for us to visit Yanti Sri Rezeki in her city/university! It was a reunion of three University of Rochester/Warner School Fulbrighters – as…
I am thrilled to be able to report that last week, Puji and I began collecting data for our research project: The Digital Literacies of Indonesian Secondary Students: An Exploration to Inform Their Educators. After many delays, we were able to get into two junior high schools and one senior high school on Thursday and…
What I’m learning from all of these opportunities to share and connect with researchers, students, teachers, and teacher educators To say that I’ve had a busy speaking schedule since starting this adventure in the Southern Hemisphere might be as much of an understatement as saying that the climate here in Java is “warm.” It started…
The Critical Processes of Negotiating Access and Developing Understanding “All research protocols and permission documents will be created and translated into Indonesian, and human subjects research approval will be secured, prior to departure.” (Lammers, 2018, p. 3 of Fulbright Project Statement) I had such a lofty plan for what the timeline of my research in…