David R. M. Saavedra

Assistant Professor, School of Education, Virginia Commonwealth University

David R. M. Saavedra uses an ethnographic lens to study how cross-cultural educational relationships are formed, maintained, broken, and repaired and the importance of such relationships in the learning process. He aims to understand how teachers and students from different cultural backgrounds form relationships with one another, how these relationships function in schools to either aid or hinder learning, and the various ways in which an ethic of care can be applied and understood by those in a culturally diverse setting. His research interests include anthropology of education, relational pedagogy, critical pedagogy, and cross-cultural teacher-student relationships. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University.