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Imagine! Online - January 2007
Up one levelTEACHING AND LEARNING
Masters of Education in Imaginative Education
Author: Kieran Egan. We have begun a new Master of Education degree program in Imaginative Education. This innovative program is partly on-line--during the Fall and Spring semesters--and also involves two summers in intensive courses for a three week period, during which students will attend the IERG conference and be able to interact with teachers and other scholars from around the world. Intake for our next Masters cohort ends in February. Please read below for more information!
Update on the Current Masters Program
C. Broom talks with Dr Natalia Gajdamaschko...IERG’s second Masters in Education cohort is based in the Surrey campus for the first time. This unique Masters program aims to improve the schooling experience for both teachers and students through reinscribing teaching and learning in terms of the imaginative education (IE) framework. The current cohort, composed of high school teachers, adult education teachers, and alternative education educators, has begun to take a total of six courses, taught by imaginative education theoretical experts. Dr. Kieran Egan taught the first course.
New Journal Issue of Educational Perspectives
Author: Kieran Egan. We are pleased to announce that the next issue of the journal Educational Perspectives will be a special issue devoted to Imaginative Education. The guest editor for the issue is Geoff Madoc-Jones, a faculty member at Simon Fraser University and a long-time IERG associate (or at least as long-time as a 5.6 year old organization can have). The issue is made up of an introduction to IE, taken in part from Owen Tyer's Brief Guide...
Masters' Students--Mary, Caitlyn, and Gillian--Discuss their Program
Main author: Caitlyn James Secondary authors/editors: Mary Mulleady and Gillian Bateman... “My initial impression, upon entering the Imaginative Education program, was that it would be highly Arts based, since that is how I personally perceived imagination….But imagination is much broader than simply the Arts.” Gillian Bateman
Spreading Imaginative Education in New York City...
...Gillian Judson describes her trip to New York. On November 17 and 18th, I went to the Bank Street College of Education located in New York City to teach a short course on Imaginative Education to a group of graduate students in Museum Education. The students in the program live all over the country and work in a wide variety of alternative learning contexts ranging from art galleries and science centers to children's museums and museums dedicated to the Holocaust and economic history. During the two-day course, the students developed many fantastic examples of how Imaginative Education could shape the educational programming as well as the design of exhibitions in these diverse contexts.
New Guide to Imaginative Education...Teachers' Guides on the Way
We are delighted to finally have available glossy printed copies of "A Brief Guide to Imaginative Education" by Owen Tyers. The Guide gives a simple overview of the ideas on which IERG is founded and introduces some of the main activities we are engaged in.
Teaching Newton's Laws
Newton's three Laws of Motion are possibly the most elegant and powerful tools in all of physics. The three laws can be written on one side of a 3 x 5 card, yet they can explain almost every observable phenomenon, from the way breadcrumbs scatter on a plate to the irresistible momentum of a tsunami. This unit explores these three laws, examining both their wide-ranging applicability and their role in transforming our understanding of nature.
Call for Research Articles, Questions, and Topics!
We want this newsletter to reflect your research, interests, questions, and topics associated with Imaginative Education. Please email newseditor@imaginativeeducation.org if you have a research article to share with us, or if you have suggestions for topics or questions you would like answered. Thank you! Coming next....