Summer Institute on Imaginative Education
This first biennial institute will take place in July 2008 and has an over-arching theme of "Achieving Educational Goals with Imagination". The goal in organizing this event, was to build on our previous conferences (link above) in such a way that we could respond to the ever growing number of requests for more focused sessions on Imaginative Education, as well as retaining the structure of previous conferences.
Please click below to be taken to the conference website to learn more about either submitting a proposal, or registering to join us.
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July 2008 - Achieving Educational Goals with Imagination
July 7, 2008 – July 9, 2008How can a focus on imagination help teachers, schools and districts achieve their educational goals?
Our focus for this event will be on educational practices that come to the fore once one takes the imagination seriously as a major learning tool. We invite practitioners and scholars, and those who are both, to bring their expertise and reflection about imaginative education to building a richer and more effective conception of education. Concern with the imagination is not merely a matter of techniques of teaching, nor of something belonging only to the arts, but is rather a key to more effective education across the curriculum. It is our aim for this event that we will contribute significantly to articulating a new and more adequate conception of education as a result of taking the imagination seriously. -
Vancouver July 2010
July 1, 2010 – July 5, 2010
Annual Research Symposia on Imaginative Education
The Imaginative Education Research Group (IERG), part of the Centre for Imaginative Educatin at Simon Fraser University, is pleased to continue our Annual Research Symposia on Imaginative Education.
Beginning in 2006, the IERG began this series of symposia as a part of our annual International Conference on Imagination and Education. This event is designed as an avenue for researchers to discuss their work and enter into dialogue with other researchers in the area of imaginative education at our annual conferences while also having their papers considered for fully refereed Research Symposium Proceedings.
To read about our first two research symposia, please go to http://www.ierg.net/confs/index.php
To read about the next symposium, please click below.
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3rd Annual Research Symposium - July 2008
July 9, 2008 – July 9, 2008This year's Research Symposium will be offered on July 9, 2008 in conjunction with the First Summer Institute on Imaginative Education which runs from July 7 through July 9th. As in previous years, the research symposium is an avenue for researchers to discuss their work at our annual conference while also having their papers considered for fully refereed Research Symposium Proceedings. The two previous years of Research Symposia proposals can be viewed at this website.
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4th Annual Research Symposium - July 2009
July 15, 2009 – July 18, 2009
International Conferences on Imagination and Education
Country X, early 2009
Vancouver, July 2009
Country X, early 2010
Country X, early 2011
Vancouver, July 2011
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Vancouver July 2009
July 15, 2009 – July 18, 2009See http://ierg.net/conferences for more details.
6th International Conference on Imagination and Education
The 6th International Conference on Imagination and Education: "Imaginative practice, imaginative inquiry", is taking place from 29-31 January, 2008 at the Rydges Hotel by the Lake, Canberra, Australia.
The five previous International Conferences on Imagination and Education (link above) have gained such momentum, that we are pleased to be working with the Learning Communities Research Area, University of Canberra, to bring this event to Australia.
Registration is open and we invite teachers, students, researchers, policy makers and the interested public to join us in our aim to stimulate discussion of imaginative education and its applications in all sites of learning, and to ensure that educational experiences are imaginatively engaging for both teachers and learners.
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Australia 2008 - "Imaginative practice, imaginative inquiry"
January 29, 2008 – January 31, 2008The 6th International Conference on Imagination and Education: "Imaginative practice, imaginative inquiry", 29-31 January, 2008 to be held at the Rydges Hotel by the Lake, Canberra, Australia
The Imaginative Education Research Group (IERG) and the University of Canberra invite you to join us in our aim to stimulate discussion of imaginative education and its applications in all sites of learning, and to ensure that educational experiences are imaginatively engaging for both teachers and learners.
The conference theme "Imaginative practice, imaginative inquiry" aims to connect a cross-section of educators and administrators from elementary & high schools, universities, professional organisations and work-place settings in a dialogue and exploration of imaginative and creative ways of teaching, learning and conducting educational inquiry.
Confirmed speakers are:
Keynote Speakers
Kieran Egan (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Noel Gough (LaTrobe University, Australia)
Invited Speakers
Bernie Neville (La Trobe University)
Mark Fettes (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Sean Blenkinsop (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Miranda Armstrong (Sustainable Living Centre, Melbourne Girls Grammar School, Australia)
Conference Tracks
Participants are invited to submit their proposal to one of the following tracks:
1. Evaluating imaginative learning
2. Imagination in science and/or mathematics teaching
3. Imagination in arts and/or humanities
4. Imagination across the curriculum
5. Research and theory in imaginative education
6. Unexplored territories and new frontiers
Current Call for Papers (Deadline 30 September, 2007).
Conference Registration.
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