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Imagining the Future. Role Models, Students, Captured Imagination and Modern Education Reform
| What | Seminar |
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2006-09-27 from 14:30 to 16:30 |
| Where | Halpern Centre - SFU Burnaby |
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Speaker: Dr. Stefan Popenici, Post-Doctoral Fellow, IERG September 27, 2006 from 2:30 to 4:30,
The topic of role models and heroes who shape individuals‚ value maps is directly related with education results. This presentation will look at the data provided by the first nationwide survey on role-models and motivation for learning in Romania and it will analyze how these findings are connected with imagination and education. We will try to find out how imagination is connected with motivation to learn, study and develop skills for the future and what public education do in order to meet these goals. Second, we will
present a comparative analysis on major trends in education through the lenses of the intrinsic relation between education and imagination. In the end, we will analyze major challenges presented by the situation when the imagination of our students is captured by the controversial creations of the media, by street mythology or villain heroes.
About Stefan:
Since 1996 Stefan Popenici was a senior researcher in the Institute of Educational Sciences, Romania, within Educational Management Department. As a former Advisor to the Minister in the Romania‚s Ministry of Education and Research, Dr. Popenici was responsible with educational policies for Romania‚s educational reform, educational research and coordinator of a national project on education against discrimination, racism and anti-Semitism. Stefan Popenici holds a Ph.D. in Educational Sciences (with a dissertation on Education and Imagery. A study on fairy tales), a Master degree in Educational Management and a BA in Pedagogy and Psychology from Bucharest University. Dr Popenici have professional experience as international expert or participant in different international programs in education in Belgrade (Serbia), Oxford (UK), Washington D.C (U.S.A.), Barcelona (Spain), Budapest (Hungary), Salzburg (Austria), Jerusalem (Israel) and Manila (Philippines). He was associate professor between 1997 to 2000 in Bucharest University and Iasi University and Associate Professor in De La Salle University ˆ Manila, in 2005. Mr. Popenici published a book on imagery, education and imagination and various studies and articles in education