IMAGINATION in EDUCATION: Aboriginal communities, school districts, and SFU in partnership
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Christine Hearn
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2006-12-18 09:46
A $1 million five-year grant to Fettes from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's Community-University Research Alliances (CURA) ... will allow Fettes and his team to work with the Sto:lo, Haida, and Tsimshian communities and with school districts in Chilliwack, the Queen Charlotte Islands, and Prince Rupert to see how the concepts of imaginative learning developed at SFU can help schools engage all children in learning. Only 42 percent of 18-year-old B.C. aboriginal students complete high school compared to 79 percent of other students. Fettes wants to address that problem. (Nov. 2004)
For Mark Fettes his first doctoral course in education was “like a homecoming.” With two and a half degrees in biochemistry, that sounds like an odd statement. But Fettes had decided not to be a lab scientist, quit his PhD program, gone to work for an NGO in Europe where his work language was Esperanto and he also learned Dutch, and returned to Canada to work for the Assembly of First Nations researching community-based language problems in aboriginal communities.
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