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Interview with Raul Nakasone

Recent Teaching History
History: A Celebration of Place; 2000-1
Master In Teaching; 1999-2000; 1998-99; 1997-98; 1995-96
Community: Time, Space, People, Place; 1996-97

Recent and Current Areas of Interest

"Because I travel to Peru every summer, I am interested in comparative education and I'm working on tying ideas together like Bloom's Taxonomy and Gardner's Intelligence Theory. I am setting up workshops in both English and Spanish. I base the work in a Freirian approach. I'm interested in the writing of Paula Freire and John Dewey. School reform in Washington State is of high interest to me."

Key Qualities Of Student Work:

"The key question for me is - How do you feel about your work? The work has to be something that is with the student forever. Whatever it is , it has to be very, very important to the student."

Teaching Style:

"I am a listener and I promote the student as the center."
Student evaluations say positive things about Raul's teaching: he is authentic and affirming, "...he leads without leading."

Interviewer: Yvonne Peterson