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Donald Freeman

Donald Freeman is Director of Teacher Education and Associate Professor of Education at the School of Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He is also a Senior Faculty Fellow at the graduate School for International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont. His research interests focus on teacher learning, in the contexts of organizational and systemic reform, and its influence on student learning. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Modern Language Journal and previously on the boards of the Educational Researcher and the TESOL Journal. He is past president of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), and member of the University of Cambridge ESOL Advisory Council.