Current projects: learning vs teaching, changing pedagogy
Pedagogy and world system analysis, ideology and practice in teacher professionalism, Third World education and emphasis on South Asian colonial history and current policy.
Like Diderot in the 18th C. Dr. Di Bona has maintained a profound skepticism concerning the benefits of institutional solutions to daily problems. Instead he seeks to liberate the enormous potential of an individual's inner strength and help students realize their own personal ability. To this extent education becomes a participatory dialogue in which teacher and student disappear as levels of hierarchy and aim at an organic unity.