Tami Carsillo

As a doctoral candidate in the International Education program at George Mason University, I have adapted my background as a secondary Social Sciences teacher, a Civic Education and Information Specialist for the Virginia General Assembly, and President of the Board of Directors of an NGO for South Sudanese girls’ education into a doctoral program of study that focuses on the interests and intersects of secondary education, action civics, and youth-led peace initiatives. I believe that educational opportunities framed in equity, equality, and indigenous knowledge create spaces for new knowledge, leading to appropriate place-based education curricula and programs.

PUBLICATIONS
Holmarsdottir, H. B., Baily, S., Skårås, M., Ramos, K., Ege, A., Heggernes, S. L., & Carsillo, T. (2023). Exploring the Power of Internationalization in Teacher Education. Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE), 7(1). DOI: 10.7577/njcie.5233

Skårås, M., Carsillo, T., & Breidlid, R. (2019. The Ethnic/local, the national and the global: Global citizenship education in South Sudan, British Journal of Educational Studies, 68:2, 219-239, DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2019.1598540

Baily, S., In Shahrokhi, F., & In Carsillo, T. (2017). Experiments in agency: A global partnership to transform teacher research. Rotterdam, Amsterdam: Sense Publishers. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6300-944-7

BLOG POSTS
Carsillo, T. (2017, May). The first national South Sudan education curriculum [Case study]. Beyond Intractability. http://www.beyondintractability.org/casestudy/carsillo-south-sudan

Carsillo, T. (2017, December). Recognizing the Barriers to Girls Education in South Sudan [Blog post]. Africa ELI. http://africaeli.org/recognizing-barriers-girls-education-south-sudan-3/

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
Skårås, M., & Carsillo, T. (2021, April). A three-year Open GATE collaboration on South Sudan citizenship education. In Opening doors through Open GATE: Professional success and personal growth, lessons learned from an international professional partnership program [Panel paper]. Comparative and International Education Society 2021 Conference, Online.

Carsillo, T., & Skårås, M. (2018, March). The ethnic, the national, and the global: Citizenship education in South Sudan [Panel paper]. Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference, Mexico City, Mexico.

Carsillo, T., Andrews, H., Atef, A., Giwa, K., Hauber-Özer, M., & Ray, A. (2017, April).  Agency, advocacy, and leadership: The power of teacher action research in schools [Roundtable paper]. George Mason University College of Education and Human Development Student Research Symposium, Fairfax, Virginia.

Carsillo, T., & Andrews, H. (2017, March). Considerations for international and cross-cultural collaborative research [Workshop]. George Mason University Open GATE meeting, Fairfax, Virginia.

Baily, S., Andrews, H., Webb, K., Moore, D., Lopez-McGee, L, & Carsillo, T. (2017, March). Agency, advocacy, and leadership: The power of teacher action research in schools [Roundtable book launch]. Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

Carsillo, T. (2016, March). Results from a qualitative study of teachers’ motivation, knowledge, and skills in South Sudan secondary civics curriculum [Panel paper]. Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada.

Carsillo, T. (2015, March). Use your words: Debate programs in South Sudan secondary education [Poster]. Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.

Carsillo, T., & Horch, M. (2014, December). Tech a stand: Learn how to navigate, conduct research and reviews, and create lesson plans and activities from the Virginia General Assembly and State Capitol websites [Paper presentation]. Virginia Society for Technology in Education Annual Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Carsillo, T., & Hinshaw, S. (2013, October). Education and unity in post-conflict societies: A comparative review of Guatemala and the Republic of South Sudan [Panel paper]. Comparative and International Education Society Southeast Regional Conference, Tallahassee, Florida.

Carsillo, T., Jalkanen, D., & Rehwaldt, P. (2013, September). Successful legislative education programs [Panel paper]. National Conference of State Legislatures, Legislative Information and Communications Staff Section Annual Professional Development Seminar, Washington, D.C.