It’s great stuff! I was exposed to it through the article in Educational Leadership and I am now reading the book. It makes so much sense! Thank you for your great work! Dave Bell (Texas)

When I started to use IE several years ago now, that I tried it out in a few lessons here and there, was amazed at the success and then began to look for other areas and subjects in which I could use the Lesson Planning Frameworks and other aspects of the theory. Pamela Hagen.

I am just back home after a great pro-day and still reeling from all that I learned from your workshop. Pamela Walker (Victoria, B.C.)

I've been having a great deal of success with IE in the classroom. I taught grade 5 last year using IE-based concepts and had a GREAT year. I'm teaching kindergarten this year and using the concepts again - so far so fabulous! Mary Mulleady, (Teacher, Surrey.)

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2003 Inaugural Conference

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At the heart of education is the desire to help people learn. As any teacher knows, and many students will tell you, the quality of teaching is closely tied to the ease with which people learn. We believe that by better understanding the nature of students' imaginative engagement at different ages, we can learn how to draw on and further stimulate their imaginations.

We believe, in short, that students' imaginative engagement is vital for effective learning. It is with this belief in mind that we are organizing the first International Conference on Imagination and Education.

Our conference will explore various ways in which we can better understand imaginative teaching and imaginative learning. It will bring together educational practitioners and researchers from British Columbia, Canada, and a number of other countries, in more than 120 sessions that will explore the relationship between imagination and education.

Conference Overview

This year’s event will focus on four main themes:

Theme A:	Imaginative Curriculum Design across the Disciplines (such as math, the natural sciences, social sciences, teacher education, etc.)
Theme B:	Imagination in Educational Philosophy, Research, and Administration
Theme C:	Imagination and the Arts (drama, visual arts, music, etc.)
Theme D:	Imagination and Language (including ESL instruction, literacy, language arts and storytelling).

Our conference will give participants a chance to meet a number of prominent educational thinkers through workshops, research presentations, and plenary sessions.

For a detailed description of our conference program, click here.

Keynote Speaker

Elliot W. Eisner

Professor of Education and Art, Stanford University

Featured Presenters

Kieran Egan, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Cedric Cullingford, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Maria do Ceu Roldao, Polytechnic Institute of Santarem, Portugal

Clyde Coreil, Center for the Imagination in Language Learning, New Jersey, USA

Steve Bell, Storyline, Scotland

Stimulating discussions, innovative ideas, and summer on the West Coast of Canada…just imagine the possibilities!