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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.
The organizer, Leslie Bedford, was delighted with the course. She stated, " . . .Gillian . . . was just superb. Really terrific…It couldn't have better. And for me it was very useful to be formally taught about IE and also to encounter all these new cognitive tools which I didn't know about. It should be a regular part of our curriculum; I already told Gillian I want her to come back in two years. Tremendously relevant to museum education.”