Ladislaus M. SemaliLadislaus M. Semali is a comparative and international education professor at the Pennsylvania State University, Learning Performance and Systems specializing in Comparative Ways of Knowing and Learning. In past several years, he has held positions i the Curriculum and Instruction Department, specializing in curriculum theory, media literacy education, comparativ and international education and non-Western educational epistemologies. Dr. Semali served as chair of Comparative and International Education, www.ed.psu./cied/ at Penn State and Co-director of the Inter-institutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge (ICIK) (www.ed.psu.edu/icik), which is part of a global network comprised of thirty indigenous knowledge resource centers in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. ICIK’s signature program that Dr. Semali directs is an international conference that convenes every three years to involve people in deliberations on indigenous ways of knowing and learning activities from around the world. This conference is informed by courses taught every semester and retreats held in the off years when the annual conference is not convened. Semali has extensive experience in organizing internships and workshops for students in Africa, and is currently directing research in East Africa on the UN Millennium Development Goals (a set of targets for cutting poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015), social networks, digital media, and the use of mobile devices for education development. Read More Read Less