Tarnue Johnson
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Tarnue Johnson (born November 6, 1968) is a leading Liberian educationist and scholar. He was educated in Africa, Europe and the United States. He is a graduate of Middlesex University in London. Tarnue also completed postgraduate studies at the University of London and undertook postgraduate studies at the University of Manchester in Manchester, England.
He currently teaches at East-West University in Chicago, Illinois. He has won local and international acclaim over the years for his analysis of the Liberian situation. In 2004, his most recent book Education and Social Change in Liberia was published by Author House. In this work he laid out foundational principles for institutional change in postconflict Liberia.
As a political commentator and analyst, he has written numerous articles in the popular press as well as in academic journals. His articles have covered various topics across the social science disciplines including cognitive psychology, political economy, cultural studies, African and Liberian history, and educational policy. Like Jungen Habermas and other critical theorists, a principal theoretical objective of his work as embodied in his numerous articles has been to foster humanagency and self-determination in contemporary social and civic life through participatory and rational discourse.
He is currently working on a socratic typed dialogue on Liberian society entitled The Emergence of Tragedy in Liberian Society: A Dialogue and Treatise in Education. This work is due to be published in 2006. Tarnue's research interests include African political thought, Liberian educational and social policy, discourse analysis, adult learning theory, critical theory and political economy. In addition, his teaching interests include the development of political thought, African American history, the politics of American Minorities, sociology, and the psychology of the African American experience
