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Biola University
- 2001, Doctor of Missiology
Dissertation: The Foundational Nature of Self in Ndorobo World View
Assemblies of God Theological Seminary
- 1980, M.A. in Cross-Cultural Communications
Southern California College
- 1978, B.A. in Religion and Psychology
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Graduate Institute of Applied
Linguistics, Dallas, TX
2004 - Present
- Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics
- AL5314 Culture, Language and Mind
AL5372 Social and Political Organization
AL5374 Christianity Across Cultures
LD5373 Religion and Worldview
Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology, Nairobi, Kenya
2001-2004
- Lecturer:
- Sociolinguistics, Bible Use in African Contexts, Principles of Teaching,
Sociology of Education, Music I & II.
Oregon SIL, Northwest Christian College, Eugene, Oregon
2001
- Associate Professor
- Cultural Anthropology and Ethnographic Research Methods.
Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
1992-1994
- Associate Professor
- Anthropological Linguistics, The Bible as Literature.
SIL International, Dallas,
TX
1994 - Present
- SIL Anthropology Consultant
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| 2010. |
The Influence of Social Worlds on Engaging Ideas. Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching 3(1):7-23. Paper posted at: http://www.nu.edu/assets/resources/pageResources/journal-of-research-in-innovative-teaching-volume-3.pdf
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| 2010. |
Applied Instructional Model for Managerial Intercultural Competence. 17th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences 17(1):21-34. Paper posted at: http://asbbs.org/files/2010/ASBBS2010v1/PDF/A/Ashdown.pdf
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| 2009. |
The Socio-Cultural Role of the Monster Image in Ndorobo Folklore. Conference Proceedings for 7th Global Conference on Monsters and the Monstrous: Myth and Metaphor of Enduring Evil, sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.net and hosted by Mansfield College, Oxford University, Sept. 14-17, 2009. Paper posted at: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ashdownpaper.pdf
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| 2009. |
The Structure of Cognition Governing Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organizations. The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management 9(4):155-168. Paper posted at: http://ijm.cgpublisher.com/
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Torobo World View Construct of Nature. InterCulture: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6(2).
Paper posted at: http://dih.fsu.edu/interculture/volume6_2/Ashdown.pdf
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| 2009. |
Efficacy of Whole Language Narrative for Vernacular Literacy Education among Thai Language Minorities. In Annals of Language and Learning: Proceedings of the 2009 International Online Language Conference (IOLC 2009). Azadeh Shafaei and Mehran Nejati, eds. pp. 317-329. Boca Raton, Florida: Universal Publishers.
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2008. The Relationship Between Ndorobo Personality and African Traditional Religion as a Human Development Issue. The African Symposium 8(2):128-136. Paper posted at: http://www.ncsu.edu/aern/TAS8.2/TAS8.2Shelly.pdf
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| 2008. |
Consideration of Converging World Views: Christianity & African Traditional Religion Among U.S. Immigrants. Conference proceedings for Conference on Christianity, Culture, and Diversity in America: Conversations about Diversity-A Kingdom Calling, hosted by Huntington University, Indiana, Nov. 14, 2008. Paper posted at: http://www.huntington.edu/cccda/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ashdown-christianity-atr.pdf
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World View Methodological Questions for Comparative Religion. Presented at the 2nd International Online Conference on Religious Studies: “Comparative Religion, From Subject to Problem,” sponsored by the Moscow Society for the Study of Religions, October 2008. Paper posted at: http://www.e-religions.net/page.php?id=10&comments=1 |
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The Supernatural Category of the Non-physical Self in Ndorobo World View. In VIVA Africa 2008: International Conference on African Studies. The University of West Bohemia. Pilsen, Czech Republic.
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| 2007. |
Investigating World View Through Narrative Analysis. GIAL Electronic Notes Series 1(2), <http://www.gial.edu/GIALens/issues.htm>
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Kinship Analysis of the Western Red Karen. Occasional Papers. Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Payap University Press. |
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| 2010 |
The Torobo Social Construct of Ethics. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Commission of Religious Studies, Strand: Ethics, Society and Cultural Analysis, Dallas, TX, March 13. |
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A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Go’el in Deutero-Isaiah. Presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting for Society of Biblical Literature, Section: Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Interpretation, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21.
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| 2009. |
The Socio-Cultural Role of the Monster Image in Ndorobo Folklore. Presented at the 7th Global Conference on Monsters and the Monstrous: Myth and Metaphor of Enduring Evil, Mansfield College, Oxford, England, September 16. |
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The Structure of Cognition Governing Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations. Presented at the 9th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, June 27. |
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Socio-Cultural Model of Analyzing Educational Environments Across Cultures. Presented at Annual Meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators, Dallas, Texas, February 17. |
| 2008. |
The Supernatural Category of the Non-physical Self in Ndorobo World View. Presented at VIVA Africa 2008: Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference on African Studies, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic, March 25, 2008. |
| 2008. | The Ceremony of Eldership Among the Ndorobo of Kenya: Notions of Obligation and Time Continuity. Presented at 12th Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration and Public Display, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, September 27. |
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Consideration of Converging World Views: Christianity & African Traditional Religion Among U.S. Immigrants. Presented at the Conference on Christianity, Culture, and Diversity in America: Conversations about Diversity-A Kingdom Calling, hosted by Huntington University, Indiana, Nov. 14. |
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- Association of Teacher Educators
- American Society of Missiology
- Society of Biblical Literature
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