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307 Keller

Campus: University Park

Departments: Curriculum & Instruction, Learning and Performance Systems
Programs: Language & Literacy Education, Adult Education

Dr. Semali is associate professor of education at the Pennsylvania State University in the departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Learning and Performance Systems, specializing in curriculum theory, literacy education, comparative and international education and non-Western educational epistemologies. Dr. Semali is chair of Comparative and International Education www.ed.psu.edu/cied/ at Penn State and Co-director of the Interinstitutional 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 people involved in indigenous knowledge activities from around the world. 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.