Title
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Office: 201-X MCKB
Phone: 801-422-4689
Email: freire@byu.edu
Website: N/A
Dr. Freire is an Associate Professor at Brigham Young University. He has also worked as an elementary school teacher for four years in Spain and for three years in a Spanish-English dual language bilingual program at an urban school in Utah.
He is a founding and governing board member of Esperanza Elementary, a 90:10 dual language bilingual school with the highest number of Latino students in the state of Utah.
His research interests concentrate on equity in dual language bilingual education, with one line of research focusing on multicultural teaching practices and another on policies, planning, and programs.
He has presented his research at various national and international conferences, including featured and keynote presentations. His scholarly work has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals. He serves as a co-editor of the International Journal of Multicultural Education and a board member of the Bilingual Research Journal. Additionally, he is the lead editor of The Handbook of Dual Language Bilingual Education (2024) and a co-editor of Overcoming the Gentrification of Dual Language, Bilingual, and Immersion Education: Solutions-oriented Research and Stakeholder Resources for Real Integration (2024).
He has received the 2023 Nancy Peery Marriott Excellence in Scholarship Award at the McKay School of Education at Brigham Young University and the 2023 Early Career Award from the Bilingual Education Research special interest group at the American Educational Research Association.
Dr. Freire enjoys teaching educational issues from equity perspectives.
Dr. Freire's research interest is equity in dual language bilingual education, especially issues related to language education policy and planning, as well as teacher research.
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Early Career Award —
2023
- Sponsor: Bilingual Education Research Special Interest Group (BER SIG), American Educational Research Association (AERA)
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Nancy Peery Marriott Excellence in Scholarship Award —
2023
- Sponsor: McKay School of Education. Brigham Young University
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2017 Conference Faculty Fellowship —
2017
- Sponsor: American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE)
- Received the 2017 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE)Conference Faculty Fellowship. National Conference, "Degrees of Value: Focus on Student Learning." Irvine, CA. March 9-11, 2017.<br />
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J. George Jones, Jr. & Velma Rife Jones Scholarship —
2013–2014
- Sponsor: College of Education, University of Utah
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Edith E. Myers Endowed Scholarship —
2012–2013
- Sponsor: College of Education, University of Utah
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Somos Scholarship —
2012–2013
- Sponsor: Utah Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Editors: N. Flores, A. Tseng, & N. Subtirelu
Pages: 19-39
Journal: Bilingualism for all? Raciolinguistic perspectives on dual language education
Date: 2020
URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0013124520928608
Publisher: Sage
Volume: 53
Issue: 2
Pages: 231-248
Journal: Education and Urban Society.
Date: 2019
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15348458.2020.1753201
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Journal: Journal of Language, Identity & Education
Date: 2019
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/wZK8ZDc4ZFGWKawaE7KW/full
Volume: 40
Issue: 1
Pages: 55-69
Journal: Bilingual Research Journal
Date: 2016
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2022.2077032
Volume: 24
Issue: 3
Pages: 245-271
Journal: Current Issues in Language Planning
URL: http://amaejournal.utsa.edu/index.php/amae/article/view/288/224
Volume: 10
Issue: 1
Journal: Association of Mexican American Educators Journal
URL: http://epx.sagepub.com/content/30/6/849
Volume: 30
Issue: 6
Pages: 849-883
Journal: Educational Policy
URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11256-016-0370-0
Volume: 48
Issue: 4
Journal: Urban Review
URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11256-017-0424-y
Publisher: Springer
Volume: 49
Issue: 5
Pages: 22
Journal: The Urban Review
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15348431.2016.1229617
Volume: 16
Issue: 4
Pages: 276-289
Journal: Journal of Latinos and Education
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19313152.2016.1204890
Volume: 11
Issue: 2
Pages: 86-100
Journal: International Multilingual Research Journal
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13670050.2020.1775778?journalCode=rbeb20
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Volume: 29
Issue: 1
Pages: 276-289
Journal: Journal of Language, Identity, and Education
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Volume: 44
Issue: 2
Journal: Bilingual Research Journal
URL: https://ijme-journal.org/index.php/ijme/article/view/2647
Volume: 23
Issue: 2
Journal: International Journal of Multicultural Education
Volume: 20
Issue: 3
Pages: 299-321
Journal: Language Policy
Volume: 16
Issue: 1
Pages: 27-46
Journal: International Multilingual Research Journal
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13670050.2020.1775778?journalCode=rbeb20
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Volume: 25
Issue: 4
Pages: 1516-1529
Journal: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/19313152.2021.1929762
Volume: 17
Issue: 1
Journal: International Multilingual Research Journal
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2021.1874868
Volume: 22
Issue: 6
Journal: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Volume: 98
Issue: 2
Pages: 27-46
Journal: Current Issues in Language Planning