Dr. Robert Sargent
RETIRED
Fax: (902) 457-4911
E-mail: msvu.ca
Research and Teaching Interests
- Technology Education - children solving problems using appropriate technologies in appropriate ways.
- Human resource development in the Caribbean, Southern African and Pacific Rim - Can education be rethought to better equip individuals to contribute to community and national development?
- Global Education - coupled with and directly related to the innovations of Technology Education are potential in curriculum design and development research for improvements in infusion and integration strategies for all schools; focus on children solving authentic and relevant problems.
- "Culture, Curiosity, and Need for Achievement Motivation: Context and Constraints on Education and Schooling in an International Comparative Framework" (Swaziland, Canada, Trinidad and China)
Background
PhD, Dalhousie University; thesis included studies in Nigeria
MEd, St. Mary's University
MA, Dalhousie University
Dr. Sargent is currently the International Academic Programme Coordinator at MSVU. Since 2000 he has also been working in a Consulting capacity with the Secondary Education Modernization Programme in Trinidad and Tobago.
Selected Publications
- 2003. An Introduction to Teaching Technology Education, Biological Technologies, Volume 2. Published by the Ministry of Education in Trinidad and Tobago as a curriculum guide.
- 2002. An Introduction to Teaching Technology Education, Energy, Power and Transportation Technologies, Volume 1. Published by the Ministry of Education in Trinidad and Tobago as a curriculum guide.
- 1999. Politics and Economics in the Benue Basin (Nigeria), c. 1300 - 1700, Fourth Dimension Press, Enugu.
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