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"This is a fascinating, provocative, utterly visionary and courageously speculative imagining of an educational future that is simultaneously elite and egalitarian, deeply intellectual yet utterly connected to passion and identity. A most audacious proposal from one of education's most audacious thinkers . . . an inspiring challenge to those who aspire to deep understanding for their students.”—Lee S. Shulman, President Emeritus, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
"The Learning in Depth project has brought to our students a completely new relationship to learning that has been surprising in its depth and quality. After seeing Learning in Depth at work in our school community, I know this has been a critical, missing element. It has proven to be everything we imagined (and much more we didn't) when we heard about Kieran Egan's remarkable vision.”—Sheri Dunton, K-3 Teacher, Corbett Charter School
“Learning in Depth outlines a bold and stimulating curricular innovation designed to improve the quality of schooling from kindergarten through high school. The book’s key idea is certainly worthy of serious debate and continued experimentation. For that reason alone, I commend its suggestive proposal to the attention of thoughtful educators everywhere.”—Philip W. Jackson, David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus University of Chicago.
What people are saying about Imaginative Education
It’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.)
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Fall 2005 Seminars
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2007-10-26 12:06
Education Graduate Student Association and IERG Presents....
Date: Thursday, September 22nd , 2005
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Place: Education Room 8651 (Burnaby Campus, SFU)
Presenter: Kieran Egan ( Professor, Faculty of Education, SFU)
Kieran Egan was born in Clonmel, Ireland in 1942. Earning a BA (history) at the University of London in 1966, he went on to serve as a Research fellow at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Kingston-upon-Thames. He began his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education at Stanford University while working concurrently as a consultant to the I.B.M. Corp. He completed his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1972 and was subsequently hired at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, where he is a full Professor and Canada Research Chair in Education.
Title: Evolution, hunter-gatherers, and today's primary classroom .
Abstract: This talk will explore how human evolution and the development of our distant ancestors are both of importance to understanding how best to educate children today. We tend to forget our bodies and the earliest intellectual tools humans developed when it comes to teaching and learning in everyday classrooms today. This talk will try to show why we should attend more to our bodies and to our evolutionary development for understanding modern education.
Presenter: Geoff Madoc-Jones (Assistant professor, Faculty of Education, SFU)
Geoff grew up in Wales; came to Canada in 1968 and taught both elementary and secondary Language Arts from 1969 to 1985. Since 1985 he has worked in the Faculty of Education as a teacher educator as well as a program developer in Graduate Programs. During this time he also completed his MA and Ph.D. in the area of philosophy and language arts education. His research interests include hermeneutics, teaching poetry and the history of literacy.
Title: Imagination + genre transposition: Liminal Performances in the Secondary Language Arts Classroom .
Abstract: The paper investigates the possibilities for the development of the imagination by structuring language arts student activities around shifting texts and performances from within one literary or rhetorical genre to another. Initially textual examples are used to highlight the mediational role of audience and register and then students are instructed to play with the creative possibilities of such transpositioning in their own creative writing and performing.
Presenter: Keiichi Takaya (Post doctoral fellow, IERG, Faculty of Education, SFU)
Keiichi Takaya received his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University in 2004 and is currently serving as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Imaginative Education Research Group. His research interest is in the philosophical and historical foundations of education. He is currently working on collecting and analyzing theoretical resources for those who are interested in the connection between imagination and education.
Title: How to develop students' imaginative capacities
Abstract: In this presentation, I will make a somewhat counter-intuitive argument on the way we may take imagination seriously in our educational practice; I will argue that an imaginative education -- the kind of education that not only engages students' imaginations but also contributes to the achievement of some crucial educational values -- is likely to be done by intensive study of specific details, rather than by so-called "imaginative" activities that are fun but lack rigor and content.
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