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July 2008 Conference Registration now open!

How can a focus on imagination help teachers, schools and districts achieve their educational goals? This is the topic for our Summer Institute this July 7th to 9th to which we warmly invite you to register!

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More IERG on YouTube

You might want to take a look at our latest brief video on YouTube or on TeacherTube. It involves a discussion of the Learning In Depth project, with Tannis Calder, Kieran Egan, and Don McCleod.

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IERG awarded a $60,000 grant

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's International Opportunities Fund has granted IERG $60,000 to continue its work with centres in other countries. The project is to focus on development of teacher education materials and programs in various countries so that they can better implement Imaginative Educational methods. The grant will also support the IERG conference in Barcelona in 2009. The picture is of (left to right) Sean Blenkinsop, Florentina Ion, IERG's Romanian publisher, Kieran Egan, Therese Iliscu, our translator, Nadia Tarnoeveanu, and Stefan Popenici, in Bucharest in 2007.

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Theory and Practice of the Storyline Method

Many IERG folk will be familiar with the work of our colleagues in the Storyline movement. We are happy to announce a book just published that gives a good sense of the theory and practice of the Storyline method.

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Teaching 360˚

A new book, edited by Gillian Judson, who is currently completing her Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University, and working as a Research Assistant for IERG, has just been published by Sense Publishing. The book contains essays by teachers who have taken IE M.Ed. courses, or who are researchers allied with IE.

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The 6th Imagination & Education conference

The 6th. Conference on Imagination and Education was held in Canberra, Australia from Jan. 29th. To Jan. 31st. 2008. Participants came from more than a dozen countries. It was a lively and excellent event. Sean Blenkinsop, Tannis Calder, Kieran Egan, Mark Fettes, Kathryn Ricketts, Kym Stewart, and Jean Warburton came from the IERG at SFU. The Dean of Education at SFU, Dr. Paul Shaker also attended, and graciously introduced Kieran Egan’s talk.

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Learning in Depth

You might be interested to explore a new IERG project called “Learning in Depth.” The LiD item in the navigator bar will also take you there. This is an innovation to the curriculum that may transform the experience of schooling for all students.

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Welcome to HERG!

On January 24th. And 25th. 2008 the Holistic Educational Research Group was formally inaugurated at a conference at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Sean Blenkinsop and Kieran Egan of IERG were invited speakers.

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Singapore Slings and Arrows

Tannis Calder, Kieran Egan, and Mark Fettes delivered a two-day workshop to members of the Singapore Minisitry of Education on Feb. 4th. & 5th. 2008. The focus was on how Imaginative Education could influence particularly the Singapore Social Studies curriculum.

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We are now producing an on-line Newsletter. To see the current and recent issues click here.

See our additions to the lesson and unit plans we are mounting on the site, here and here.

We have added new material on the implications of our ideas for the curriculum here.

See the new LUCID Newsletter here.

See some recent video material here.

Seminars

Play in Learning!

Please join us this Thursday for a morning seminar by our faculty's visiting scholars Dr. Pentti Hakkarainen and Dr. Milda Bredikyte. They are bringing their extensive experience in the areas of play and learning, bringing together Scandinavian, European and Russian scholarship in this area, combining observations and methods from diverse perspectives including educational psychology and theatre studies.

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