Author

Gyal Lo

Gyal Lo (Jia Luo), a prolific author, received his PhD from the University of Toronto and was awarded Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Fellowship for his research titled “Culturally Relevant Education for Minority and Rural Village in Asia.” He has taught for over a decade as a faculty member at the Department of Tibetan Language and Culture, the Northwest University for Nationalities. Currently, he was appointed as a Tibet Specialist at Tibet Action Institute. His research interests cover Educational Sociology; the Structuration Theory, Tibetan Buddhism in Society, Mother Tongue and its Policy, Indigenous Knowledge in Curriculum, Social-Cultural Reproduction, Sociological Studies of Spirituality, and Multilingualism.