Overview

The LUCID (Learning for Understanding through Culturally Inclusive Imaginative Development) Project is a research partnership between the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University  (SFU), the Haida, Stó:lō, and Ts'msyen First Nations, and B.C. School Districts 33, 50 and 52. Through the project we explore the potential of imaginative education in improving academic and other educational outcomes in B.C. public school districts with high numbers of Aboriginal students. The project relies on imaginative education to bridge the gap between academic curriculum and the cultures of children’s lives by creating a learning environment in which all children can achieve their fullest potential.

There have been many efforts to make schools more culturally inclusive. There have been even greater efforts to ensure that schools are effective in developing children’s powers of understanding, but often these have underestimated the vital role of teachers, and of culturally embedded ways of thinking, in mediating children’s encounters with the curriculum.

LUCID addresses these challenges directly. In its collaborative structure, its direct involvement of teachers, and its distinctive theoretical approach, it may hold one key to the challenge of making schools exciting places to teach and learn for all.

LUCID is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) under it's  Community-University Research Alliance  (CURA) Program. The LUCID Program began in January 2004 and is funded until December 2008. The intention, however, is to maintain an ongoing educational research program in B.C., and to work with other initiatives in indigenous and multicultural education, across Canada and worldwide.

Please take the time to browse the LUCID site to learn more about the Project. We routinely update our news and evens as they occur as well as our resources as more are developed so please check back often. For more information on the structure of the LUCID Project, please follow the links listed bellow:

Research Design

Presentations and Papers

Partnerships