Anne Freese

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | UH Manoa · Department of Curriculum Studies

This self-study documents two teacher educators’ professional inquiry into the notions of critical friendship. Specifically, we asked: How does our interactive inquiry on the topic of critical friendship lead us to new understandings of critical friends? Three theoretical perspectives framed this study – More Knowledgeable Others, Thought Collectiv...

This article reports a self-study of multicultural identities in a public high school ethnic studies class and a university multicultural education course in Hawai‘i, a unique multicultural setting in which no ethnic group is in the majority. Participants are the two authors and 117 of their high school and university students. Three important...

The above quote has particular significance for our students in Hawai'i because of the blending of the many different ethnicities, cultures, languages, social classes, and religions. Given this diversity, teaching multicultural education in Hawai'i provides a unique opportunity to draw upon the rich multiplicity of cultures, ethnicities, religions,...

Most would agree that a learning community of practice cultivates social and intellectual development in educational settings but what are the other benefits and what does a learning community actually look like in practice? This book explores such questions as: "Are learning communities essential in education?" "How are they designed and developed...

Learning to teach is a highly complex and multidimensional process. This self-study, conducted collaboratively by a preservice teacher and a teacher educator, traces one preservice teacher's development and growth over a 2-year period. The study examines the complexities of learning to teach, as well as the complexities of assisting preservice teac...

Aself-study community encourages the sharing of experiences and new insights, both positive and negative. The building of knowledge develops through dialogue in a personal-constructivist-collaborative approach (Beck, Freese, & Kosnik, 2004). Loughran and Northfield (1998) note that the individual perspective may be a significant paradox in self-stu...

This chapter is designed to highlight how self-study can lead to transformation in preservice teachers’ thinking. It examines how telling one’s story can create spaces for rethinking, revising, and digging more deeply to uncover personal theories, beliefs, and contradictions (Ritchie and Wilson, 2000). The chapter focuses on the self-study research...

The challenges teacher educators are now facing are of a different nature from those of the past few decades. They have taken on an urgency and a magnitude not witnessed before. Strict government control of education is increasing, the social problems in the schools are more severe, the budget restrictions we face in the university are greater, and...

With its emphasis on personal, constructivist, and collaborative teaching and learning, a self-study approach has the potential to significantly enhance the preservice practicum. We begin by outlining various dimensions of the self-study approach and then note some of the challenges to implementing this approach in teacher education. In the central...

As a faculty member teaching in an innovative, two-year Master's of Teaching program, I found myself reexamining my beliefs and assumptions about the role of re#ection in preparing preservice teachers to become re#ective practitioners. In the "rst semester of a four semester program, I introduced a three-part re#ective framework (Loughran, 1995, Wi...

As a faculty member teaching in an innovative, two-year Master's of Teaching program, I found myself reexamining my beliefs and assumptions about the role of reflection in preparing preservice teachers to become reflective practitioners. In the first semester of a four semester program, I introduced a three-part reflective framework (Loughran, 1995...

The article presents findings from recent research on reading rate, comprehension and subvocal speech. It discusses how computer assisted software could be used to assist readers in developing reading strategies that can help them become more proficient readers. It also discusses implications for software development that takes into account the rec...

The relationship of subvocal speech and reading rate to comprehension of 25 children, ranging from 8 to 15 years of age, was investigated by means of electromyographic (EMG) recordings taken while the subjects silently read two meaningful passages. The first was orthographically regular, and the second was composed of approximately sixty percent ho...

The impact of the western educational model and the use of English on the language and traditional behaviors of young people in American Samoa was studied. Results from a 1973 study were compared with results collected in 1987 using the same instrument to measure changes in language and culture-related behaviors. A survey of nearly 190 American Sam...

We are three teacher educators practicing selfstudy and reflecting on its value to our students while also exchanging our reflections with each other. As with artists who come together in schools of study in both individual and joint exploration, we hope that our collaborative inquiry will shed new light on our thinking and research in teacher educ...

New teachers face incredible challenges, and often alone, forcing nearly half of all newly hired teachers to leave the profession within their first five years (Darling-Hammond, 1997). As teacher educators, we believe one of the key ingredients in teacher education is self-study of one’s teaching practices with systematic collegial support. We have...