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Ellen Herda, Ph.D.
herdatemp@yahoo.com
Dr. Ellen Herda has worked in international development settings in thirty five different countries over the past 25 years. An anthropologist and a management consultant, her primary emphasis has been in socioeconomic development in South East Asia. Her special foci are education, technology and health care. She has been instrumental in setting up computer centers in remote areas providing technical and educational skills to the Hilltribes in Burma, Thailand and Laos. She is a professor in the School of Education at the University of San Francisco and teaches applied critical hermeneutics in the Organization and Leadership Program. The cornerstone of her teaching curriculum is to know oneself in relationship to the other, historical and narrative identity, and international leadership development.
Interpretive Development & Organization Policy
Critical hermeneutics, the science of interpretation, and autopoietic systems theory provide the bedrock of inquiry and practice. Anthropology, socioeconomics, philosophy and narrative identity theory inform the participatory research orientation for students interested in this area. International development, corporate management, and social policy formation are the cornerstones of our work. Examples of specific courses: Work and Culture, Legitimation Crises in Organizations and Societies, International Adult learning, Policy Analysis in Pluralistic Society.
Academic coursework, research and development can be focused in the following areas:
Leadership
- Schools/Universities
- Corporations
- Government
Organization Development
Community Development
NGO Management
Adult Education
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