What people are saying about Imaginative EducationIt’s great stuff! I was exposed to it through the article in Educational Leadership and I am now reading the book. It makes so much sense! Thank you for your great work! Dave Bell (Texas) When I started to use IE several years ago now, that I tried it out in a few lessons here and there, was amazed at the success and then began to look for other areas and subjects in which I could use the Lesson Planning Frameworks and other aspects of the theory. Pamela Hagen. I am just back home after a great pro-day and still reeling from all that I learned from your workshop. Pamela Walker (Victoria, B.C.) I've been having a great deal of success with IE in the classroom. I taught grade 5 last year using IE-based concepts and had a GREAT year. I'm teaching kindergarten this year and using the concepts again - so far so fabulous! Mary Mulleady, (Teacher, Surrey.) |
Document ActionsFrom Hip Hop to Habermas and Back: On Cultural Forms and Cultural Imagination.
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2007-04-24 15:06
Speaker: Dr. Michael Ling, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, SFU Hip-hop is a phenomenon that encompasses music, fashion, language, visual media, social mores, politics and much more. It is also a phenomenon with a wide and varied currency, a careful examination of which can tell us much about both culture and imagination. Drawing on concepts from cultural anthropology, cultural studies, and particularly the work of Jurgen Habermas, this presentation will offer some ideas about how cultural forms are created, how they move, and how they transform. It will also argue why it might be important for teachers and academics to pay attention to such emergent and shifting forms of culture. About Michael: Michael Ling is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education with a background in cultural anthropology. He has an abiding interest in how people make their lives meaningful through creative cultural expressions, along with how such expressions circulate and are transformed through experimentation and innovation. He works primarily in the Fine Arts Diploma stream of Field Programs, the Masters of Education in Educational Practice, and in the Community-based Masters of Education Program. |
