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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.
Many efforts have been made to make schools more culturally inclusive and even greater efforts to ensure that schools are effective in developing children’s powers of understanding, but often these have underestimated the vital role of teachers, and of culturally embedded ways of thinking, in mediating children’s encounters with the curriculum.
LUCID addresses these challenges directly. In its collaborative structure, its direct involvement of teachers, and its distinctive theoretical approach, it may hold one key to the challenge of making schools exciting places to teach and learn for all.
LUCID is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), launched Community-University Research Alliance (CURA). For more information please click here: www.ierg.net/lucid