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Professional Publications & Contributions

• “An African Vantage Point on Feminist Research: Contemporary Eritrean Women and Revolution,” ed., Stephanie Athey, Sharpened Edge: Women of Color, Resistance and Writing . Praeger Publishing, 2003.
• “Gender Equity and Nationalism in Eritrea : Challenges to Women's Consciousness and Emancipation,” Journal of Post-colonial Education , Foundation Volume, Fall 2001.

Additional Information

Asgedet Stefanos is a professor of Critical Pedagogy, African Studies and Women Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, College of Public and Community Service. She has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses at CPCS since 1989. Before transitions at the college, Professor Stefanos previously served as coordinator of the B.A. Degree Completer Program, and the Training and Development Concentration (no longer offered).

Her teaching, scholarship and service is in the field of education, African Studies, and within each a specialized focus on women's issue.

Her teaching include courses on education, training and development; gender, economic development and national politics; race, ethnicity and class; multicultural education; literature of immigration and exile; and, politics of education.

Professor Stefanos' research interests and published work include Third world societies' education with a focus on Africa and gender concerns. She has published work that delineate Guinea Bissau's effort in incorporating women in its formal and non-formal educational systems using Amilcar Cabral world view and Paulo Freire's ideas of pedagogy. She has also published several articles and book chapters on Eritrean official educational policies based on extensive field research on women's experiences with and assessment of their nation's educational system. She is presently completing a book manuscript on Gender and Nationalism: The Status of Contemporary Eritrean Women.

Professor Stefanos' Service to UMB and her Profession/Discipline include:
•  Advisory Board Member, The Monroe Trotter Institute, UMB
•  Advisory Board Member, Center for Improvement of Teaching, UMB
•  Executive Committee Member, Faculty Council , UMB
•  Board Member, The Boston Pan-African Forum, Boston, MA
•  Editorial Advisory Board Member, Journal of Postcolonial Education, Melbourne , Australia


Courses Taught:
•  Reading Life Histories
•  Social Differences
•  Models of Social Change
•  Debating Policy Issues
•  Exploring Culture
•  Influencing Policy Issues
•  Public and Community Action
•  Reflective Social Action
•  Critical Readings
•  Value Conflicts
•  Life Stages: Adulthood
•  Community Needs Analysis
•  Theories of Adult Education and Training
•  Assessing Training Needs
•  Designing a Training Curriculum
•  Implementing a Training Curriculum
•  Evaluating a Training Sequence

    
Links:
http://www.perfectfit.org/CT/freire6a.html
http://www.saisreview.org/sr_backissue_gender.html
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hepg/internationaleducation.html
http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C5987.aspx