International Education & Post-Disaster Recovery
Comparative Education is typically a course that students will encounter at the graduate level, but I had the privilege of taking an introduction to comparative education with Dr. Coia at Agnes Scott. This course had an overall aim of deepening our appreciation of the education system(s) with which we are most familiar and developing a more sophisticated understanding of other systems. Our focus throughout the course centered around how different systems deal with fundamental social justice issues.
Although this course was interrupted by the perils of the pandemic, I was still able to complete a comprehensive research project, through which I was able to produce original scholarship and really add to the field. In my study of post-disaster recovery in Japan, Indonesia, and the United States, my research coined 3 models of educational finance and administration–the Pegenticus Model, the Juvian Model, and the Toparchian Model— through which post-disaster recovery of national education systems in their respective countries were analyzed.
