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Imagine! Online - February/March 2007
Up one levelOur newsletter is published every six weeks. In this newsletter, we feature LUCID.
What is the LUCID Project?
The LUCID Project is a research partnership between the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University (SFU), the Haida, Stó:lō, and Tsimshian First Nations, and B.C. School Districts 33, 50 and 52. It relies on imaginative education to bridge the gap between academic curriculum and the cultures of children’s lives by creating a learning environment in which all children can achieve their fullest potential.
LUCID expands in Haida Gwaii
Author: Mark Fettes....An innovative pilot high school program and a focus on connecting with land and community are helping LUCID reach more students and teachers in Haida Gwaii (School District 50). The new program in Queen Charlotte Secondary School, called Taay.yaan.nuhl ("cluster of stars" in southern Haida), is designed for students in Grades 8-11 who for a variety of reasons are not flourishing in the regular high school system.
Bringing it all Together: LUCID Conference 2006
Author: Kym Stewart.....From July 8th to July 10th, 2006, teachers, leaders, researchers and supporters of the LUCID research project from all districts were able to reconnect at a quaint cannery in Port Edwards.
Teaching: An Integrated Unit based in Environmental Care and Connection
Cedar is central to the cultures of numerous West Coast Indigenous nations, including the Tsimshian, Haida, Nisga’a Gitxsan and Haisla. Traditionally, cedar provided these peoples with materials for clothing, shelter, transportation and utensils needed for everyday living. The cedar, then, is wonderful because it is essential for life. It represents munificence because it provides goods in extraordinary variety and abundance.
Re-imagining Media Education: Media Detectives-in-Training Pilot Project
Author: Kym Stewart. .... A lack of media-education-teacher-training opportunities and media-education materials for elementary teachers, combined with the already-busy schedules of teachers, have often forced media-education programs to be overlooked or relegated to the margins of the BC curriculum. This project, collaboratively developed by Kym Stewart, an IERG associate and Education graduate student with an extensive media studies background, and Jude Comeau, a wonderfully energetic Grade 3 teacher at Armstrong Elementary School in Burnaby, BC, seeks to provide teacher training by presenting examples of imaginatively-based, media-education lessons, and by supporting the teacher as she creates space for the exploration of children’s media culture in classroom discussions. This is part one of a two-part article.
Our Next Newsletter (April/May)
...will feature some of our current research projects. Our May/June newsletter will focus on imaginative teaching....