Dr Alusine Melvin Moseray Kanu
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Many aspects define professor Kanu's personal and professional background, including research interests. Dr. Alusine M. Kanu, a native of Sierra Leone, West Africa. migrated 33 years ago to the United States with the goal of furthering his education. A three-time graduate of George Mason University in Fairfax,Virginia, Kanu's education includes, communication, human resource training and development (Interdisciplinary Studies) and a doctorate in Community College Education, with course work in Communication Instruction. Kanu is a candidate for a second doctorate (D.Ed.) in Pastoral Community Counseling with concentration in Multicultural Counseling at Argosy University. Kanu's career experiences include working as an elementary school teacher, a counselor, librarian, radio announcer and producer, public relations, legal research and program initiator, designer,facilitator for workshops in public speaking, “Training the Trainer.” In addition to 25 years’ experience teaching communication in the United States, Kanu is a “Who’s Who” in North America.
Kanu is employed as a full-time professor in Communication at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale,Virginia, and is adjunct faculty at George Mason University. He teaches Introduction to Speech Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Small Group Communication, Public Speaking, Business Communication, Intercultural Communication, Organizational Communication, Mass Communication and Oral interpretation. Valued contributions by Kanu being visionary for the establishment of a community college system in Sierra Leone with great support of the International Community College Town Center Model developed by Dr. Gail Kettlewell of George Mason University as the plan of action for Community College Centers in Kono, Lunsar, Makeni, and Pujehun. In applying his multicultural competencies, Kanu is CEO and founder of Alusine Multicultural Family Counseling Corporation. www.alusinemulticultural.org.
Kanu is married with two children and three grandchildren. Credentials by Kanu include a 4 time author of Reflections in Communication: an Interdisciplinary Approach (2009) ISBN-13,978-0-7618-4162-3 published by the University Press of America, and co-author of Connecting Intercultural Commun-ication: Techniques for Communicating across Cultures, (2010) ISBN 978-0-7575-8123-6 with Kendall Hunt Publishing. Experiencing Interactive Interpersonal Communication (2011) ISBN 978-1-4568-5632-8 with Xlibris. Faculty Development Programs: Applications in Teaching and Learning with Iuniverse. ISBN 978-1-4620-2449 Kanus first doctoral dissertation, published by ERIC, is Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness in Community College Settings.
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Teaching professionals and those seeking careers in education, communication, organizational training and development will find this text also available in e-book very useful. This article includes a summary of "Faculty Development Programs, Applications in Teaching and Learning" (2011) with Iuniverse authored by Alusine M. Kanu. The text recommends expert systems to solve problems in teaching and learning bases on needs assessed, task analysis and feedback systems.
In a relational approach to communication, Kanu's text also available in e-book "Experiencing Interactive Interpersonal Communication" (2011) with Xlibris involves a synthesis of research with regard to relational communication. This article provides an in-depth summary of text with encouraging words to readers to capture the dynamics of human communication. Important processes such as communicating goals, expectancy, attributions and perceptions are discussed with credible analysis.
A must read e-book, "Connecting Intercultural Communication, Techniques for Communicating Effectively Across Cultures" by Kanu . A. and Morra. T (2010) published by Kendall Hunt offers an objective portrayal of cultural dimensions that deal with processes that affect communication across cultures. The e-book summary is provided in this article with a review of literature that addresses issues of diversity with knowledge about communication competences and the skills necessary.
A multicultural sensitive design provides comprehensive up to date knowledge, skills and perspectives in counseling. Multicultural counseling has objectives of helping to develop a multicultural perspective, understand barriers to effective multicultural counseling, the develop skills and strategies for counseling specific populations. The process includes having positive attitudes toward a variety of racial, ethnic, and cultural groups by implementing counseling development perspectives.
Professional counselors have an understanding of moral principles of counseling with sets of values, attitudes and skills that are relevant to causes of distress and social changes. Advocating culturally sensitive interactions grounded in therapeutic relationships adds analysis of moral decisions, professional premises, the sociological context and the personal professional identity. Keeping an open mind and understanding the uniqueness of each counselee guides contemporary counseling practice.
The ICCTC project designed by Dr. Gail Kettlewell of George Mason University parallels the game of soccer or football as there are similarities. Both are community events that enable participants to acquire skills, cooperation, creativity, decision making, problem solving and life long skills . The ICCTC model provides occupational programs in technical, vocational, and professional fields leading to associate degrees or certificate thus enhancing more friendly satisfaction in Sierra Leone.
Murray Bowen, who developed genograms as a family theory, was the first to realize that the history of our families creates templates which shape the values, thoughts, and experiences of each generation, as well as how that generation passes down these things to the next generation. Bowen believed that families are complex social systems that could be understood through their relationships across many generations. Genograms shows how we balance being together as a family and being individuals.
This article discusses African peace making traditions and related multicultural understandings of peace making. An African conceptual framework posits peace as a process of interconnected relationships that transform individual identity into community. Traditional African peace making are characterized by collectivism of such intensity that it is more accurately termed as extended kingship. African peace making traditions show some form of council or consensus that allow expression of concerns.
In acting as point persons, sale professionals guide decisions of others, including internal and external customers. As marketing tips, it is good practice to set goals and to understand the inherent roles of selling. In addition to providing valuable insights, sales personnel should note that selling is a system that is in relation to other parts of the organization. It is therefore necessary for sales professionals to acquire training in understanding trends to promote products and services.
The goals of most applications of internet use to entertain kindergartners centers in ways they sense the world, the way they see, hear, smell and taste. Children understand events and others by thinking, playing and by being creative as they learn. Workshops via the internet can be tailored to enable children to pretend to do something or to pretend to be someone. The way an episode or event is scripted, the way special effects coordinate messages are all ways to accommodate the ways kids learn
