By Sean Patrick O’Reilly (Founder/C.E.O., Arcana Studio) Sean Patrick O’Reilly is an energetic and passionate visionary who has demonstrated his leadership, creativity, humanity and resourcefulness as a transmedia writer and producer. His vision and storytelling knows no limits, and in true creative capacity, knows no boundaries from medium to medium. It has been my […]
Category: Imaginative Education (IE): Activities & Insights
These posts are all about Imaginative Education (Dr. Kieran Egan’s imagination-focused approach to teaching.) Learn about the imagination’s role in learning and how to engage it in teaching!
Living Learning in Depth – LiD Resources by Linda Holmes
Are you already using LiD? Have you ever felt stuck or lacking ideas to move a topic forward? Linda Holmes, one of the first teachers to employ and develop LiD at Gordon Greenwood School (Langley, B.C.) and long time “LiD Trainer” has created a list of tips for schools and homes. Here are three of […]
Room for More: A Future-Teacher’s Outlook on Imaginative Education
By Susann Meinke: Year 2 Student, International Teacher Education Program (ITEps), NHL Stenden, The Netherlands Susann Meinke is an enthusiastic and creative student teacher from the NHL Stenden University in the Netherlands. She is interested in exploring holistic and imaginative ways of learning and teaching. When most people think of the word imagination, they think of things […]
Clowning Around: A Serious Answer to Authenticity in the Classroom
By Nadia Chaney (Director of Training, Partners for Youth Empowerment; CIRCE Academic Council Member) The Quest to be “Authentic” As a community arts facilitator and facilitation trainer, I’ve had an important question with me for the past three years: How can a facilitator, or other group leader (teacher), be truly authentic? Now, I know that […]
Imaginative Teacher Education: Living and Breathing the Pedagogy
By Kavita Hoonjan (Elementary IE French Immersion Teacher, member of Langley School District, MEd in IE alum, member of the CIRCE Academic Council) We want our teacher candidates to not only value imagination, but to integrate imaginative practices and an understanding of Imaginative Education within their mindset, pedagogy and teaching philosophy. These imaginative teacher candidates must be reflective, curious, […]
