Organizational Development Category

Social Learning in Myanmar

I recently returned from the 67th American Association for Adult and Continuing Education conference in Myrtle Beach, SC where I presented a piece of research from my dissertation on the role of social learning in a community-based enterprise in Myanmar where I did my field research. Social learning theory comes from Albert Bandura (1977) and […]

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Summer Research Conclusion

September 14, 2016 Much to my dismay, summer has ended and classes have begun again here at GW. I am so grateful to the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the Elliot School for International Affairs here at GW for affording me the opportunity to conduct a research project this summer in Thailand and Myanmar through the […]

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The Land of Golden Pagodas

February 26, 2016 I remember picking up Freedom From Fear in 2009 off a dusty bookshelf in Chiang Mai and reading the powerful essays of Myanmar’s (Burma’s) pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. It was in those pages my interest in Myanmar began. With a voracious appetite I devoured several other books by Aung San Suu Kyi […]

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