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Teaching and Consulting
Mark C. Eades is a lecturer in English language and literature at Shanghai International Studies University, a private consultant and corporate trainer in Shanghai, and an online instructor in humanities with Santa Rosa Junior College in California. His extensive previous experience in education and training includes additional classroom teaching in the United States and China as well as corporate training, one-to-one tutoring, and library/media center administration. His previous teaching experience includes work as an English instructor at Fudan University in Shanghai in addition to college and high school teaching and instructional support with diverse student populations in the United States. His work as an English instructor at Fudan also included teaching in Western Cultures, teaching and research activities with the USAID-funded Center for American Studies at Fudan, and assistance to the College English Center and Fudan University Press in the production and editing of English-language instructional and testing materials. Additional China experience includes private English teaching and English training for Chinese staff with international joint-venture companies in Shanghai. Additional U.S. experience includes five years in high school and university library/media center administration, and seven years in instructional support with limited-English-proficient students in the San Francisco public schools. His work with immigrant and refugee youth in San Francisco led him further to undertake educational visits to Indochinese refugee camps in Southeast Asia. His more recent work with Santa Rosa Junior College and Diablo Valley College in California includes classroom and online teaching in American Cultures as well as Classical and non-Western humanities, and he is currently developing an online course in Asian humanities for Santa Rosa Junior College. Current interests for further professional development include intercultural training and consulting for international business, development, education, and cultural exchange in China and the Asia-Pacific region. His professional qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Science, a Master of Arts in Humanities, advanced studies in literature and creative writing, and a postgraduate/professional certificate in online teaching. He is also a published author of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry, a pursuit which further exercises the research and writing skills gained in his formal university studies as well as his independent research in world cultures. International experience in addition to China and Southeast Asia includes extensive educational travel in Europe and the Middle East, including visits with Palestinian refugees in Jerusalem and the West Bank and participation in a public poetry reading in Paris following publication in Paris-based literary magazines. (see CV, Writing & Research).
Mark C. Eades
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