Biography of elfreida reader
Elfrieda "Freddy" Hiebert (born ) is an educational researcher whose work examines literacy, learning, early childhood development, teacher development....
Elfreida Read was born Elfreida Ennock in 1920 of German and Estonian parents in Vladivostock--where her grandfather had earlier been offered a judgeship.
W.O.R.D Author Biography.
When she was three years old her family was forced to flee with few possessions and little money to the International Settlement at Shanghai. There her father felt fortunate to get a job with a Swiss firm where his fluency in five languages was useful.
After the attack on Pearl Harbour signalled the Japanese entry into the Second World War, she and her British husband, George Read, who she had married when she was 20, were interned in a concentration camp as enemy aliens.
"I saw human nature stripped of every disguise," she said.
She has worked as a teacher aide, primary-aged teacher, professor, researcher, and CEO of a non-profit literacy organization."I came face to face with my own strengths and limitations. The friends we made and the hardships we endured will never be forgotten." Conversely, she told Ray Chatelin of The Province in 1985, "Well, the truth is, nothing desperate happened.
In fact, the
