Andrew Swindell – The Conversation

Educational Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles

Andrew Swindell serves as the Educational Researcher and Publishing Coordinator for the OLC’s Research Center where he works with scholars, teachers, practitioners, and industry experts on how online, blended, and digital learning can help promote universal access to quality and inclusive education for all people, everywhere. Andrew’s other research interests include how education systems can better promote digital and information literacy, Global Citizenship Education (GCE), and Education in Emergencies (EiE). Before joining the OLC, Andrew worked as a foreign aid practitioner, a classroom teacher in Myanmar and Thailand, and a teaching fellow and researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences and Comparative Education from UCLA, a M.Ed. in Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum from the University of Missouri, and a B.A. in Economics and Religion from Bucknell University.

Experience

2017–present

PhD Candidate in International Education, UCLA Graduate School of Education
2014–2017

Teacher, Yangon Academy
2012–2014

Teacher, Anuban Dan Chang, Thailand
2009–2012

Program Officer, JSI Research and Training Institution, Inc.

Education

2016

University of Missouri, M.Ed in Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum
2009

Bucknell University, B.A in Economics and Religion

Publications

2020

Comparative perspectives on international early childhood education in the context of the SDGs., In A. W. Wiseman (Ed.), Annual review of comparative and international education 2018 (Vol. 35)
2020

Community-based global citizenship education in Myanmar: Providing youth an alternative to learn local and think global, Global Commons Review

Professional Memberships

Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)
American Educational Research Association (AERA)

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