New Magazine from LifeWide Education: The Work of Imagination
CIRCE’s partner LifeWide Education has just published a magazine featuring a fantastic range of articles on the Work of Imagination. Edited by Norman Jackson and Douglas Cole Get it here.
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Entries by Gillian Judson
Imagination Champions Learning Series
From face-to-face to online: we did it! The 2019-2020 CIRCE Imagination Champions Professional Learning Series concluded last night! We kicked off the session with a personal message for our Imagination Champions from Dr. Rob Hopkins, author of From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future we Want. Then, six of […]
Participate! Dialogue Series on IMAGINATION (2020)
The Possible’s Slow Fuse is a scholarly dialogue series organized by the Centre for Imagination in Research, Culture & Education (CIRCE) and the Research Hub of the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Our 2019 series was a big hit and we are thrilled to introduce the 2020 line-up. Our 2020 series offers four stimulating […]
Philosophical Conversations (January 2020)
“No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself.” (Northrop Frye, The […]
Developing Minds Conference: Feb 14 2020 VANCOUVER
Hear from Dr. Kieran Egan and a panel of CIRCE educators at the Developing Minds 2020 Conference: Connecting Creative & Critical Thinking in the Classroom / Vancouver, Feb 14. The Imaginative K-post-secondary educators on the CIRCE panel will provide specific practical examples of how cognitive tools shape their imaginative teaching practices in ways that develop […]
Imaginative Schools Network Symposium Series Begins
On Saturday, October 19, we kicked off the first session of the Imaginative Schools Network (ISN) symposium series. In this symposium series co-hosted by the Centre for Imagination in Research, Culture and Education (CIRCE) and the Centre for Educational Leadership and Policy (CSELP) at Simon Fraser University, a team has been formed to investigate the […]
Think of the Possible: Webinar on IE in Museums
Jane Cockcroft from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford did a webinar on her guide to employing IE in Museum contexts. The guide entitled Think of the Possible: Imaginative Education in Action in Museums and Heritage Settings provides a brilliant introduction to Imaginative Education and indicates its value and potential for creating emotionally memorable Museum experiences. The guide […]
Imaginative Workplace Research: What’s that?
Does your workplace encourage imagination? Tell us about it! Got 20 minutes to share? Please participate in CIRCE’s “imaginative workplace research study” by responding to a short questionnaire. All responses are anonymous. Please email if you are interested!
New Addition to the CIRCE Administration Team
We are pleased to welcome Chloë Lum to the CIRCE administrative team as an assistant. Chloë is an undergraduate student studying in the English Department at Simon Fraser University. She aspires to be an elementary school teacher and is grateful to all the wonderful teachers who instilled the love and passion for education she has […]