Faculty Development Programs: Applications in Teaching and Learning

Professor Alusine M. Kanu in Faculty Development Programs: Applications in Teaching and Learning demonstrates instructional competencies of faculty developer, leadership facilitator, organizational developer, media specialist, and academic advisor. This well-thought-out text conducts discussions to promote learning how to learn with methods of study that respect faculties' desires to be experts in specialized disciplinary knowledge and specific teaching skills. The intended audience is anyone wanting to learn about teaching or knowledge transfer and for teaching professionals and those seeking careers in education, communication, or in organizational training and development. Faculty Development Programs: Applications in Teaching and Learning suggests contemporary underlying research and practice on up-to-date influences of education. An array of chapters includes developing multicultural faculty, faculty development, instructional development, organizational development, gender and communication issues, media and new technologies, leadership and development, curriculum development, and academic advising. This book provides students and faculty with positive and productive ways of educational development.

Dr. Alusine M. Kanu is Professor in Communication at Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, Virginia, and adjunct faculty at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Kanu is a four-time author of Experiencing interactive interpersonal communication, Connecting intercultural communication: Strategies for communicating effectively across cultures, and Reflections in communication: An Interdisciplinary approach. He is a member of the Speech Communication Association, The American Society for Training and Development, and the National Association of Cognitive Behavioral Therapists. Dr. Kanu, a native of Sierra Leone, is an alumnus of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia with course work in communication, human resource training, and development, and his first doctorate is in Community College Education, with course work in Communication Instruction. Kanu is currently pursuing a second doctorate (D.Ed.) in Pastoral Community Counseling at Argosy University. His career experiences include working as an elementary school teacher, a counselor, librarian, radio announcer and producer, public relations, legal research and a public speaking workshop called "Training the Trainer." In addition to 25 years' experience teaching communication in the United States; he is a "Who's Who" in North America. A noted scholar with proven competencies with an interdisciplinary human concern and multicultural approach, Kanu is the visionary for a Community College System in Sierra Leone in partnership with the expert leadership of Dr. Gail Kettlewell of George Mason University, designer of the International Community College Town Center Model and partnerships with the people and government of Sierra Leone and concerned members of the international community.