John N. Ponsaran

Affiliate Faculty, Faculty of Information and Communication Studies

Dr. John N. Ponsaran teaches development research, development theories, poverty studies, governance, political economy of health, communication for development, and cultural studies in the Development Studies Program of the University of the Philippines Manila employing creative and critical interdisciplinarity as a pedagogical approach.  He also handles courses in management ecology and educational management in the Master of Management Program of the same campus. Concurrently, he is serving as an editor of the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino and a reviewer of the Research Ethics Board. He is also an affiliate faculty of the Doctor of Communication Program of the UP Open University where he teaches critical media literacy and serves as a dissertation adviser and panel member. Given his interdisciplinary background, he strives in contributing to the co-creation of knowledge in the substantive areas of political economy of health, critical media pedagogy, and social justice communication. Towards this end, he has published research articles on medical tourism, textbook analysis, media literacy, place-based inquiry, and visual methodologies in the UP Manila Journal (Philippines), Chulalongkorn University’s Communication and Media in Asia Pacific (Thailand), Walden University’s Journal of Sustainable Social Change (United States), Bournemouth University’s Media Education Research Journal (United Kingdom), Institute of Education Policy Studies’ Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies (Greece), National Association for Media Literacy Education’s Journal of Media Literacy Education (United States), Finnish Methodology Society’s Metodologia: Journal of Methodology (Finland), and James Nicholas Publishers’ Education and Society (Australia). As part of his dedicated service to the profession, Dr. Ponsaran has functioned as scientific committee member, panel evaluator, editorial board member, and peer reviewer in universities, academic journals, and professional organizations. He has also consistently performed public service through instructional materials development, advocacy lectures, technical assistance, and tool validation in various academic institutions, local government units, civil society organizations, and cooperatives, putting into good use his inter-animating background in development studies, participatory governance, and applied communication.