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Frederick Keenan
Frederick Keenan, a professional engineer, has worked and travelled over the past forty years in seventeen of the twenty Spanish-speaking countries focussed on in this book. The fi...view moreFrederick Keenan, a professional engineer, has worked and travelled over the past forty years in seventeen of the twenty Spanish-speaking countries focussed on in this book. The first decade concentrated on the five countries of the Andean Pact (and Paraguay) on a Canadian Government-supported collaboration to utilize the forest resources of the subregion for safe, economical and sustainable building materials.
In the following three years, he was the Director of the Forest Industries Division, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome and worked extensively in Latin America assisting countries to use their forest resources to obtain sustainable social and economic benefits.
On his return to Canada, he became the Director of International Research at the University of Western Ontario and nurtured several programs of academic cooperation with universities and research institutes around the world, including the Hispanic world. During this time, he presented week-long workshops in Spanish on the management of international university cooperation at La Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia and La Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and lectured in Spanish on sustainable forest utilization at the Instituto Técnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico and at the Junta del Acuerdo de Cartagena in Lima, Perú. (Publications resulting from these activities are listed at the front of the book).
He keeps his Spanish up to date by periodic visits to El Centro Lingüístico Conversa in Santa Ana, Costa Rica, which involve intensive sessions with private tutors and home stays with local families who speak no English.
In semi-retirement, he regularly presents case studies at the University of Western Ontario, London, that are set in Spanish-speaking countries.
Carrie McLaren’s passion for languages has been a vital part of her successful career as a Spanish and French high school teacher. Head of the Modern Languages Department at Sir Oliver Mowat, Carrie has made lifelong learning a priority throughout her career. From international exchanges in Spain and Mexico and an immersion program in Costa Rica to continuing education courses at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Carrie has kept up-to-date on the current theories of modern language education. She brings this passion and knowledge to this new Spanish language textbook, which provides students with fun and easy-to-learn exercises designed to inspire the next generation of modern language learners.
Carrie is currently working with Frederick in the creation of another Spanish book that will explore a variety of real life situations and experiences and how to cope with them.view less