Educational Technology; Cultural-Religious Diversity; Intercultural Education; Socio-cultural Philosophy; Digital Literacy; Digital Pedagogy; Global Citizenship Education; Learning Theories; Educational Metaphysics; Doctoral Education; Sustainable Education; Educational Policy; Higher Education; Learning Management Systems; Cross-Cultural Design; User Experience Design; Meta-Case Methodology.
Biography
Prior to joining DTS SUNY Korea, I had worked in multiple Australian universities such as School of Teacher Education and Leadership, Queensland University of Technology (2010-2020); Department of Interactive, Visual Design & Animation, Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology (2008-2010); Department of IT and Multimedia at Central Queensland University (2005-2008); and Department of Multimedia Design at Monash University (2002-2005). My interdisciplinary research and teaching capacity has been built based on two earned doctoral degrees: A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, 2016) titled, Interculturality: A metaphysical manifest for rethinking cultural diversity and reinventing intercultural interaction in education, and a Doctor of Design (DDES, 2007) titled, Interactive user experience design: Creating an effective online experience.
Teaching
My teaching practices in universities have covered interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary as well as intradisciplinary study areas. I have developed new interdisciplinary, college, and inter-faculty courses and delivered disciplinary courses in IT, creative industries, multimedia, design, and education. Pedagogical-methodologically, using design-based research, case study research, and critical discourse analysis, I have identified stakeholders’ psycho-socio-cultural needs and facilitated integrated curricular approaches to contemporary societal, cultural, educational and technological problems. My teaching philosophy is a learning community approach including myself as an active participant that has been used in my cross-teaching areas in a way to facilitate students’ critical engagement in emergent learning spaces and their active participation through demonstrative pedagogy and student ownership of learning.
Past and Present Research
I have published some research books with one of the most prestigious academic publishers, Routledge:
1) Cultural Diversity Pedagogy and Meta-Case Design: A New Approach to Diversity in Education (2021);
2) Critical Understandings of Digital Technology in Education: Meta-connective Pedagogy (2019);
3) Pedagogical Alliances betweenIndigenous and Non-Dualistic Cultures: Meta-Cultural Education (2018); and
4) Reinventing Intercultural Education: A Metaphysical Cultural Diversity (2018).
These books are outcomes of my inter- and trans-disciplinary research engagement in digital technology in education, multi-, inter-, and trans-cultural education, and education metaphysics. Please also visit my Google Scholar page for other publications.