Troy Martin, associate director of academic advising, utilized a staff sabbatical and a summer research grant from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro to examine educational practice in the developing democratic nations of South Africa and Uganda during July, 2009.
Through site visits and interviews of University and community educational programs in Cape Town and Durban, South Africa and Kampala, Uganda, Martin explored the intersection of democratic pedagogies within AIDS education and self-authorship themes prevalent in academic advising literature. Troy is a second-year doctoral student in UNC-G’s Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations program.