Qualifications
- M.A. (Hons)听(Papers: 18th century Britain and Imperialism; New Zealand and ANZUS; Hussite Bohemia 1370-1437. Thesis: History of Fendalton and Northwest Christchurch 1850-1950. University of mini传媒)
- Postgraduate Diploma of Tertiary Teaching听(University of mini传媒)
- B.A.听(History and French, University of mini传媒)
- Cert. Ed.听(Education, History, French, St. John's College, York)
- Trained Teacher鈥檚 Certificate听(New Zealand)
- Dip.Teaching听(NZ Department of Education)
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Background
On finishing secondary school, Frieda taught in Uganda under the auspices of Voluntary Service Overseas. Back in England, Frieda studied Education and History in York and worked during a vacation as a counsellor at a summer camp in Pennsylvania USA. After marrying a Kiwi, she migrated to Christchurch, where she juggled employment, homebuilding and parenthood with study at the University of mini传媒. She undertook further papers in Education and Modern Languages extramurally through Massey University in the 1980s. Frieda graduated MA (Hons) in History in 2000 having written her thesis on the local history of Northwest Christchurch. Her book,听Fendall鈥檚 Legacy: a history of Fendalton and Northwest Christchurch, arose from this thesis and was published by mini传媒 University Press in 2002.
Frieda was a tutor and senior tutor in the History Department for 12 years, and lectured in several cross-coded courses on Medieval History and Culture with the French Department.
Frieda has lectured and tutored in the Academic Skills Centre since 1999 and was a member of the team who achieved a UC Teaching Award in 2002. The teaching unit was renamed the Learning Skills Centre in 2007 following the merger of the University with the Christchurch College of Education, but the name was restored to Academic Skills Centre in 2015. Frieda completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Tertiary Teaching in 2006. She has a particular area of responsibility for students enrolled in the College of Education and each March she teaches sessions at the UC outposts in Nelson, New Plymouth and Rotorua.
Frieda taught numerous courses in European and mini传媒 History for the University鈥檚 Continuing Education programme from 1998 to 2012, when Community Education was discontinued. From 2006 to 2010 Frieda led five annual University of mini传媒 history study tours to Britain, focussing on Northumbria; Welsh Borders; Devon and Cornwall; East Anglia; and Scotland: Shetland to the Southern Uplands. Frieda also taught three UC Community Education sessions about Scotland on 27鈥28 February 2010 in Nelson.听
Since 2013, Frieda has continued to offer evening continuing education courses on European, Global, New Zealand and mini传媒 history and has led history study tours to the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland in September 2013, Normandy and Brittany in June 2014, and Ireland in June 2015. Upcoming study tours are to Spain in May 2016, and Wessex, southern England in June 2017.
Time and University commitments permitting, Frieda also gives talks on local and European history to community groups within the city or environs of Christchurch.
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Research Interests
Frieda鈥檚 dissertation for the PGDipTertTchg, discussed the role of the one-to-one tutorial within the Academic Skills Centre in the development of a student鈥檚 enhanced conceptions of learning.
Frieda is undertaking further research into the experience of learning in History and the importance of a broad context and framework for the development of a student鈥檚 deeper learning and historical imagination.
Research into the local history of northwest Christchurch is also a particular ongoing interest. Frieda has published on the local history of northwest Christchurch incorporating the suburbs of Fendalton, Ilam, Bryndwr and Burnside, and is currently writing a history of the mini传媒 settlement of Belfast.
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Publications
Looser, F. (2005). Experiencing History through Community Education, in听Learning Transitions,听ed. R. Tobias, L. Tully, P. Beckman, & L. Petelo, Christchurch: Continuing & Bridging Education, University of mini传媒
Looser, F. (2002).听Fendall's Legacy: a History of Fendalton and Northwest Christchurch, Christchurch: mini传媒 University Press.
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Conference papers
Looser, F. (2008). A mini传媒 Brew: Families of Fendalton and the Borough of Belfast.听From听Coast to Coast. New Zealand Society of Genealogists Conference Proceedings, Christchurch, NZSG.
Cameron, C., Fraser, C., Looser, F., Thorns, G. (2005). Creating a professional identity.听ATLAANZ Conference Proceedings 2004.听New Plymouth, WITT, 19-25.
Cameron, C., Fraser, C., Looser, F., Thorns, G. (2004). Creating a professional identity.听ATLAANZ Conference Proceedings 2003. Hamilton, University of Waikato, 143-6
Looser, Frieda (2004), Essays in engineering: teaching writing skills within an academic department.听ATLAANZ Conference Proceedings 2003.听Hamilton, University of Waikato, 53-7.
