A. Keith Carreiro

A. Keith Carreiro earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard Graduate School of Education, with the sequential help and guidance of three advisors, Dr. Vernon A. Howard, Dr. Donald W. Oliver and Professor Emeritus, Dr. Israel Scheffler. Keith’s academic focus, including his ongoing research agenda, centers upon philosophically examining how creativity and critical thinking are acquired, learned, utilized and practiced in the performing arts. He has taken his findings and applied them to the professional development of educational practitioners and other creative artists. Earlier in his teaching career he was a professor of educational foundations, teaching graduate students of education at universities in Vermont, Florida, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. He currently teaches as an adjunct professor of English at Bridgewater State University, as well as teaching English, philosophy, humanities and public speaking courses at Bristol Community College. His research on creativity and critical thinking is based upon his experience in learning and performing on the classical guitar. He started studying this instrument at the age of four with Maestro Joseph Raposo, Sr., and took lessons with him until the age of 17. Keith also studied music theory and composition with Maestro José da Costa of New Bedford, and privately with Robert Paul “Bob” Sullivan of the New England Conservatory of Music. In 1973 at Ithaca College, he attended a master class workshop conducted by Miguel Ablóniz of Milan, Italy. Ablóniz’ knowledge about technique and aesthetics attained a worldwide influence about the nature of guitar practice and performance. Maestro Andrés Segovia considered Ablóniz to be one of the world’s most esteemed classical guitar teachers. During the 70s, Keith performed his music and selections from the classical guitar repertoire throughout North and South America. He had many opportunities to play with a wide variety of musicians, composers, singer/songwriters, choreographers, theater directors, performers and conductors. Later on in his musical career, he had the distinction of accompanying his wife, Carolyn Ann Carreiro, who is a singer/songwriter. They performed throughout the country and made an album in 1994 called The Wishing Stone, which consists of Carolyn’s music that is composed and performed in a contemporary acoustic style. They live in Swansea, Massachusetts and have six children and 13 grandchildren. They belong to an eighty–five–pound golden retriever and an impish Calico cat. Due to his love of family, he has seen his fervor for history, as well as his passion for wondering about the future, deepen dramatically. Starting on May 23rd until October 9th of 2014, he sat down at his computer on a daily basis and began writing the first book of a science fiction/fantasy thriller in a beginning series about the quest for human immortality.