Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grants funding to ierg

The Imaginative Education Research Group has received a Developmental Grant from the International Opportunities Fund of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
The grant will help the IERG establish an international research network in imagination and education, working with partner institutions and collaborators in Australia, South America and Mexico, Europe, Israel, and the USA.
A planning meeting for the network was held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Imagination and Education, in Vancouver, 2006.

In response to many requests for collaboration, the IERG has created a list-serv for the purpose of building a comprehensive national and international research network on imagination and education.  We wish to bring together individuals and groups with active theoretical and practical research agendas in this area, in order to support, challenge, and extend each other's work and interests. Possible stages or outcomes of this process include on-line and in-person symposia and workshops, research planning meetings, and large-scale externally funded joint research initiatives.  Members are invited to share papers, comments, and questions via the list-serv. The main language of the list is English, but contributions in other languages are welcome.
If you are interested in joining this list-serv, please email “ierg-web@sfu.ca” with the subject “IERG Research Community”.  

The first product of this work has been the creation of the International Research Network on Imaginative Education, which we have called IRNIE for short.

The International Research Network on Imaginative Education (IRNIE) is developed on the initiatives of the Imaginative Education Research Group (IERG) at Simon Fraser University and extends the international recognition and impact of educational research in a field where Canada has become a global leader in recent years. IRNIE brings together established and new researchers from across Canada and internationally who have come to see imagination as central in some way to their research agenda. Many of these researchers first became aware of each other’s work through the international conferences on imagination and education, organized in Vancouver in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 by the IERG. Many have also been attracted to the field by the books and articles of IERG director Kieran Egan, whose work in developing a somewhat novel theory of education has included a distinctive line of inquiry into the role of imagination in teaching and learning for some 30 years.

Read more about IRNIE and its activities here .