IE Resource Materials & Suggestions For Their Use

These resource materials are designed to help anyone wishing to introduce Imaginative Education (IE). They can support presentations, workshops, and classes in a variety of different contexts, from initial brief exposures to multi-day engagements with the underlying ideas and practices of IE. We anticipate that this resource package will be most commonly used to introduce teachers and students to IE in professional development workshops, in schools, and in teacher education programs. The Resource pack contains all the materials needed to demonstrate the utility of IE as a practical method of teaching, and to give confidence is using it in everyday practice. The box comes stocked with all the handouts, games, audio and video resources to teach groups of around 25, and it also contains a DVD from which further copies of all the materials can be copied.

You can order copies of the Resource package through our on-line store: http://www.ierg.net/online_store/index.php.

The price is C$165.

List of contents

1. One copy of the introductory booklet

2. 25 copies of the Brief Guide to Imaginative Education, by Owen Tyers

(Further supplies of the printed Guide may be bought at cost from IERG: ierg-ed@sfu.ca, or copies of the text may be printed from the DVD.)

3. 25 copies of the Mythic cognitive toolkit summary (3.2.)

4. 25 copies of the Romantic cognitive toolkit summary (3.3)

5. 25 copies of the Simple Trad. Plan. frameworks.doc (4.1)

6. 25 copies of the Mythic Planning Framework.doc (4.2.)

7. 25 copies of the Romantic Planning framework.doc (4.3.)

8. 25 copies of the List of “Binary Opposites” (5.1.)

9. 25 copies of the List of “Heroic Qualities” (5.2.)

10. 25 copies of the blank-field “mythic” and “romantic” circular frameworks (7)

11. 25 copies of the annotated “mythic” and “romantic” circular frameworks (7)

12. 2 boxes of the Twist-TIE game 

On the DVD you will find a QuickTime file called “Twist-TIE Game.mov.” This gives clear instructions for how the game is to be used. We recommend showing this QuickTime movie—it works exactly like a Keynote or PowerPoint presentation, moving one frame ahead with each click of your mouse. Make sure the participants follow each step. You should organize the participants into groups of at 4 to 6 members for optimal use. One box of cards may be split into two for use at two separate tables. You will need one box of cards for every 12 players.

13. 4 sets of the Tool Card Shuffle Activity

On the DVD you will find a QuickTime file called “Tool Card Shuffle.mov.” This gives clear instructions for how the activity is to be used. We recommend showing this QuickTime movie—again, it works exactly like a Keynote or PowerPoint presentation, moving one frame ahead with each click of your mouse. Make sure the participants follow each step.

14. A DVD, with the following contents:

14.1. A PowerPoint presentation: “Intro to IE.ppt”

14.2. A text version of “A Brief Guide to Imaginative Education”

14.3. Copies of the classic, parallel, and circular frameworks

14.4. Mythic and Romantic cognitive tools handouts

14.5. Four exemplary lesson/unit plans

14.6. Lists of Binary Opposites and Heroic Qualities

14.7. Some audio and visual items that may be of use