From Classrooms to Rice Fields: Cultivating Connections Through Field Studies in Bali, Indonesia

This collection of essays works to capture the value of stepping out of the classroom environment and away from computer screens. From Classrooms to Rice Fields deals with the all-important questions of change for communities in Asia and the Pacific trying to find their place in the modern world.

Kirk Johnson was raised in the rural mountains of Western India. He received two master’s degrees from Ohio University and a Ph.D. from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He now works as a professor of sociology at the University of Guam. Johnson is the author or editor of four books and has written more than twenty referred journal articles. He has been the director of the Bali Field School since 2004.