Kelly Carey; Writing

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I could spend my entire career researching and writing. The topic isn't as important to me as the methodology. I studied critical hermeneutics with Ellen Herda at USF in her Organizational Leadership-Pacific Leadership International program. Primary authors of study included Paul Ricoeur, Hans Gadamer, Martin Heidegger, Jurgen Habermas and other researchers related to this field.

My passion has to do with applying critical hermeneutics into a conversation and interpretation-based methodology where relationships are formed and worlds are changed. While studying for my doctorate with Ellen, we met, talked, and worked with educators, leaders, community members, and missionaries in Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Northern and Southern Vietnam. This took place from 1996 thru 1999. Then, from 1999 thru 2004 I worked with Stanko Blatnik, in Slovenia, in part because my skillset was a better fit in transitioning rather than in developing countries. In southeast Asia and in southeastern Europe, conversation, interpretation, and analysis within the ideas and intent of critical hermeneutics proved, for me, to be a fascinating tapestry of culture, history, tradition, and possibility.

I spent this past year working on disseminating ideas I have had in the context of education that came about both inside and after that 1996-2004 period. Additionally, I plan to use this conversation-based methodology to explore a few topics outside of the obvious, to see how this applied approach of critical hermeneutics evolves in disparate contexts.

This coming year I am working on product development, in the context of the ideas above and large-scale web. In addition, I am working in the non-profit arena. Both avenues emanate from and thrive in the context of language, space, and identity and in the quest for meaning, understanding, and appropriation.