[sustran] Paper, work!

[Jonathan E. D. Richmond]

I have just finished a paper about educating Asians to be professionals in
transport-related development work. The paper starts with a review of
educational traditions in Asia, the tendency to rote learning, and
responses from students and government. I next discuss what I did to try
to bring an active and interactive approach to teaching transport in two
masters degree courses.

If anyone would like to see the draft of the paper and provide comments,
please email me. I would be particularly interested (in the case of
Asians) to hear if the charcterizations of Asian education I cite
hold true in your own country, and the extent to which modernization has
taken place.

I'll also advertize the fact here that I am currently looking for a new
job -- in academia or with an appopriate agency -- or consulting work. I
returned to the States last September, and have since been a Visiting
Scholar at Harvard, where I am writing up the research I conducted in
Asia (papers on transport planning in Singapore and Bangkok to follow). I
am interested in how to bring more effective planning techniques to
Asia, and in how institutional barriers may be overcome. I have also been
active in the debate over appropriate urban transport technologies, and
am interested in system management issues, such as providing better
management of bus and rail systems. I am flexible as to location! Any
leads would be appreciated!

                                                       --Jonathan
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Jonathan Richmond
Visiting Scholar
Department of Urban Planning and Design
Graduate School of Design
Harvard University
312 George Gund Hall
48 Quincy St.
Cambridge MA 02138-3000

Mailing address:
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Watertown MA 02472-1835

(617) 395-4360

e-mail: richmond at alum.mit.edu
http://the-tech.mit.edu/~richmond/