Associate Director/Internship Coordinator
The role entails Coordinating all activities relating to internship for the Edmonton Campus
- Provide orientation and overview to the internship process for students
- Approve new Supervisors and internship sites
- Engage in site visits prior to new placements (where necessary) to discuss logistics
- Point of contact once Practicum Course Instructors have completed teaching (if student requires an extension to complete internship hours)
- Assist in conflict resolution between student and supervisor
- Administration, tracking, approval and storage of all documentation pertaining to the internship process
Research interests include:
- Participative policy development
- Inclusive governance
- Educational leadership and management
Teaching
My teaching philosophy draws on African views and understandings of knowledge. In African Epistemology, knowledge and the community are intrinsically linked in that knowledge emanates from the community. Indeed, the community is the knowing being (Hamminga, 2005). Education, therefore, must necessarily link the learner to the community. The process of education should enhance one’s sense of being – within community. Teaching, thus, must connect the learner, the teacher, and the content into a wholeness starting from the familiar (community knowledge). This deep and expansive sense of familiarity undergirds my teaching philosophy.