Wesley Shumar
Department Head
Department of Anthropology
Drexel University
United States of America
Biography
"Wesley Shumar is a cultural anthropologist, Since 1997 Shumar worked as an ethnographer at the Math Forum, a virtual math education community and resource center. Currently he is Principal Investigator on The Math Forum's Virtual Fieldwork Sequence: a three-year NSF project at the Math Forum that is investigating the potential of this online educational community to affect the culture of math education for preservice teachers. He was also a co-Principal Investigator on Leadership Development for Technology Integration: Developing an Effective NSDL Teacher Workshop Model. This project is a three-year NSF project to develop and refine a hybrid workshop model that supports teachers to integrate National Science Digital Library (NSDL) resources and technologies into their classrooms with an immediate goal to directly engage over 1,000 teachers, grades 5-9. "
Research Interest
Ethnography of cyberspace, online learning communities, political economy of higher education, globalization, activity theory, semiotics, critical realism, psychoanalysis, identity and the self.
Publications
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Shumar, W. & Madison, N. (2013) Ethnography in a Virtual World. Ethnography and Education. Vol. 8 (2): 255-272.
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Shumar, W. (2014). Wither the Welfare State: The New Global Adventures of Higher Education. Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Science. Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2014, pp. 92-104.
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Robinson, S. & Shumar, W. (2014). Ethnographic Evaluation of Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education; a methodological conceptualization International Journal of Management Education. Volume 12, Issue 3, November 2014, Pages 422–432.
