Month: May 2018

Imaginative Historical Education & Inquiry (IHI): Activities & Insights

The Uses And Abuses Of “Constructivism” As A Pedagogical Concept

May 29, 2018

By Tim Waddington What’s in word? Quite a lot, it turns out. Sometime during the spring of 1597, William Shakespeare ironically stuffed the phrase “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” into the hopelessly smitten and abundantly naïve mouth of fair Juliet, thereby expressing the latter’s rather convenient indifference to her Romeo’s […]Read More

Imaginative Education (IE): Activities & Insights Wonder-Full Links & Resources

The Power Of Imagination (III): Visualizations & Debate

May 29, 2018

Welcome to Part 3 in this mini-series on the Power of Imagination by Dr. Kevin Byron. (Part One: Myths, Stories, & Thought Experiments ; Part Two: Abstractions, Analogy, Metaphor) Enjoy! Please leave a comment to continue the conversation. The boundary between our real and imaginary world has become more and more indistinct recently with developments in […]Read More

Walking Curriculum Wonder-Full Links & Resources

Lifewide Learning & Education: Why Are These Important Concepts For

May 29, 2018

By Norman Jackson (Founder/Facilitator of Lifewide Education and Creative Higher Education) Everyone who works in the field of education is familiar with the concept of ‘lifelong learning’, the journey of learning and personal development we all make through the sequential stages of our life. Viewed at the scale of a life, for most people, formal […]Read More

Imaginative Education (IE): Activities & Insights

Use Cognitive Tools To Create Positive Experiences in Physical and

May 22, 2018

By Ryan Braich and Tim Waddington It’s a tough but worryingly true sort of realization: Physical & Health Education (P.H.E.) can feel acutely unwelcoming for many young students. Happily, a great number of children thrive in the gym, finding a place for personal mastery and self-expression, all while finding an enjoyable outlet for that energy, […]Read More

Concept-Centric Teaching (Philosophic/Ironic engagement) Imaginative Historical Education & Inquiry (IHI): Activities & Insights

Path Dependence: Explaining Our Collective Resistance to Curricular Innovation

May 21, 2018

By Tim Waddington and Riley Hill In case you missed it, there’s a bright and shiny new path being forged in curriculum studies both here in British Columbia and in several jurisdictions across the developed world. Premised in student-centric, postmodern and constructivist thought, the notion of Concept-Centered curriculum and instruction has gained traction in response […]Read More

Imaginative Education (IE): Activities & Insights Wonder-Full Links & Resources

The Power of Imagination (II): Abstractions, Analogy & Metaphor

May 21, 2018

Welcome back to this 3-part mini series entitled The Power of Imagination by Dr. Kevin Byron. In Part I, Kevin describes the connections between imagination and Myths, Stories, & Thought Experiments. In this post he discusses abstraction, analogy, and metaphor. Enjoy! Abstraction concerns the mind’s extraordinary ability to think about ideas, principles and things that have […]Read More

Walking Curriculum

Imaginative Art Activities for The Walking Curriculum

May 16, 2018

Author & Artist: Adelle Caunce Playing in the Muck and Other Art Activities: Imaginative Art Activities for The Walking Curriculum is designed to go with The Walking Curriculum (Judson, 2018). It contains fun, art-based activities that correspond directly with 30 of the walking themes (e.g. The Vertical World Walk, The Growth Walk, The Lovely/Unlovely Walk etc.). The activities are […]Read More

Walking Curriculum Wonder-Full Links & Resources

Walk The Talk

May 16, 2018

By Lidor Wyssocky (@LidorWyssocky, @seempli) No, it’s not an error… A long, long time ago, in a different lifetime, maybe even on a different planet, I used to walk to school and back every day. It wasn’t common back then for parents to give their kids a ride to school, the distance didn’t justify a school bus […]Read More

Wonder-Full Links & Resources

The Scientific Imagination Process: Some Research & Analysis

May 14, 2018

(*Featured image by Norman Jackson) By Dr. Jenny Willis Whilst researching the theme of ‘Exploring Imagination in Learning, Education & Practice’ for Creative Academic Magazine #11, I was introduced to an impressive project that has been taking place for some years in Taiwan: an annual competition in secondary schools designed to develop the scientific imagination […]Read More

Learning In Depth (LiD)

LiD International: Update on Learning In Depth Programs In Busan,

May 10, 2018

Dr. Hoy-Yong Kim, Dean of Education at Pusan University, South Korea, was recently in Vancouver with some of his colleagues from Pusan University. We had the pleasure of meeting with them and hearing about the LiD programs in Busan, South Korea. What follows is a brief update on their LiD work. While the full extent […]Read More

Month: May 2018

The Uses And Abuses Of “Constructivism” As A Pedagogical Concept

The Power Of Imagination (III): Visualizations & Debate

Lifewide Learning & Education: Why Are These Important Concepts For

Use Cognitive Tools To Create Positive Experiences in Physical and

Path Dependence: Explaining Our Collective Resistance to Curricular Innovation

The Power of Imagination (II): Abstractions, Analogy & Metaphor

Imaginative Art Activities for The Walking Curriculum

Walk The Talk

The Scientific Imagination Process: Some Research & Analysis

LiD International: Update on Learning In Depth Programs In Busan,

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