Research at IERG

Kieran Egan is working on, and hopes to finish soon, the first of the new set of curriculum area based Guides. These are designed to be an extended version of the Guide Owen Tyers wrote, accessible on the IERG website. The extended Guides focus on how one can use IE in particular curriculum areas, giving lots of examples of their use. The first is likely to be on elementary science, though Gillian Judson is hard at work writing one on social studies. We anticipate that these guides will be about 50 pages long.

In the past month Anne Chodakowski co-authored an article for publication on the topic: "The body's roles in our intellectual education." Gillian Judson also co-wrote an article on "The imagination's toolkit for social studies teaching." Gadi Alexander and Isabelle Eaton were also co-authors of an article on "Cracking the code of electronic games: Some lessons for educators.”

We are currently field-testing some of the materials from our draft CD-ROM of support materials for introducing IE in Teacher Education programs. Next year we hope to finish this project and make the materials available to Teacher Education programs across the galaxy.   

Gillian Judson, Owen Tyers, Roz Stooke, and Kieran Egan recently completed a CD-ROM "kit" to accompany Egan's recent book Teaching Literacy: Engaging the imaginations of new readers and writers."  The kits contains a mass of material useful for both teaching literacy, supporting the book, and also introducing IE ideas for literacy teaching in colleges and university Teacher Education programs. The CD-ROM can be ordered from the IERG shop at http://www.ierg.net/online_store/index.php