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Manoucher Khosrowshahi
Tyler Junior College
1400 East Fifth Street
Tyler, Texas 75701
Telephone: 903.510.2279
Fax 903.510.2708
mkho@tjc.edu
Dr. Manoucher Khosrowshahi is a professor of political science, Fulbright scholar, and founder and director of the Middle East Center at Tyler Junior College. He has conducted research projects in Turkey, Iran, Japan, England, Thailand, and Mexico. He has been nominated twice for the Carnegie Foundation’s U.S. Professors of the Year Program. He has received a Teaching Excellence Award and a post-doctoral fellowship from The University of Texas at Austin, and won the 2006 Mattie Alice Scroggin Baker Excellence in Teaching Award at Tyler Junior College.
Languages: Arabic, Persian, Azeri Turkish
Presentations
Understanding Islam and Muslims: New Challenges for the American Educational System
What happens in the Middle East affects the entire world. Since September 11, many misunderstandings have arisen about the Middle East and Islam. This presentation will discuss how September 11 changed our lives in the U.S. and affected the American educational system. It will also analyze the importance of the Middle East and Islam and explore misconceptions about the Middle East, Islam and the Arab world, and the U.S. This session/workshop is very interactive and will utilize many hands-on activities to increase participants' knowledge and understanding of Islam and the characteristics it shares with Christianity and Judaism.
Millennials: Reaching and Teaching Digital Natives With Web 2.0
The Millennials (born after 1980) are bringing more to college than tattoos, flip-flops, low-hanging saggy pants that expose body parts or undergarments, and iPods. They have new ways of learning, communicating, collaborating, and getting things done via new technology. Web 2.0 represents a blurring of the boundaries between Web users and producers, consumption and participation, authority and amateurism, play and work, data and the network, reality and virtuality. Our students already are using Web 2.0 extensively. I will explore generational differences between digital native and immigrant, identify their unique characteristics, and provide some strategies for teaching and working with millennial students. I will also talk about the evolution of Web 2.0, related concepts and technologies, and Web 2.0 applications to teach and reach millennial students. This is a highly interactive session.