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Dr. Rafael A. Olivares
Dr. Rafael A. Olivares born in Stgo. Chile in 1944. In the same city he got his Title as Elementary School Teacher from the “Escuela Normal Superior José Abelardo Nunez.” While wor...voir plusDr. Rafael A. Olivares born in Stgo. Chile in 1944. In the same city he got his Title as Elementary School Teacher from the “Escuela Normal Superior José Abelardo Nunez.” While working as Elementary School Teacher, he got his College Degree and Title of High School Teacher from the “Universidad Técnica del Estado” and his Master Degree in Education from the Catholic University of Chile. He was a Professor of Pedagogy at the State Technical University when the dictatorship imposed by the militaries in Chile in 1973 make him to move to USA. To finance his doctoral studies in Bilingual Education at Teachers College, Columbia University at New York, for several years he taught Elementary School Children at PS 154, Central Harlem in Manhattan. In 1987 he becomes the Director of the Bilingual Education Program at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey and in 1990 he was hired at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY) as a Tenure Track Professor of the Department of Elementary Education. There he created the Master in Bilingual Education Program of which he become his first Director. During his tenure at CUNY he wrote books on Bilingual Education Pedagogy and publish several professional articles on the subject of teaching in two languages. In 2010 he retired from the City University of New York and become a writer of fiction. As such, he has written in Spanish an historical fiction; “Ñusta y el Jardín del Sol” which describe the life of the Princes known as the sister of the Inkas Atahualpa and Húascar. Historically, Ñusta was not only the lover but also the mother of the children of Francisco Pizarro, the Conqueror of Peru. This book was translated into English as; “Ñusta the Inka Love of Fco. Pizarro.” The second fictional book of Dr. Olivares, “Nosotros y los Otros” is a historical novel of his life and his experiences with the Chilean dictatorial regime.voir moins