[sustran] Re: Paper, work!

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan E. D. Richmond" <richmond at alum.mit.edu>
To: "Sustran List" <Sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 6:59 AM
Subject: [sustran] Paper, work!


>
> 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
> -----
> 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:
> 182 Palfrey St.
> Watertown MA 02472-1835
>
> (617) 395-4360
>
> e-mail: richmond at alum.mit.edu
> http://the-tech.mit.edu/~richmond/
>
>
>
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