I’m pleased to be part of the From The Ground Up initiative in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University Surrey. To support our Faculty’s goals of enriching our scholarly community and learning more about our colleagues, each seminar involves one of our community members sharing about their current and past research projects and interests. I’m […]
Re-imagining School
By Roel Krabbendam (Architect and Author on Education) When I was 7 years old I jumped into a Lion’s Club pool in Hoffman Estates, Illinois and learned two things indelibly: Things are not always what they seem. In this case, the deep end looked just as inviting as the shallow end, and I had not […]
CIRCE Update
growing engaged minds; imagining and making better worlds CIRCE is growing and changing! Our Academic Council and our Board of Advisors are taking shape and we have added STEAM to our portfolio of topics. Check out the all-new STEAM initiative led by Dr. Jailson Lima of Vanier College in Quebec. Do you integrate imagination, creativity, […]
#185DaysOfWalks
By Bela Luis (Grade 1/2 Multi-age Teacher, MEd student in Outdoor Learning) In the spring of 2017, I visited a small school named Brandt Argyle, just north of Winnipeg, Canada. I took many lessons away from that visit, but the one that resonated with me most was that of their daily morning walks. I decided […]
Join Me At CIRCE
growing engaged minds; imagining and making better worlds The Centre For Imagination In Research, Culture, and Education, or CIRCE [pronounced sur-see], has launched from Simon Fraser University! For those of you who were friends of the IERG (the Imaginative Education Research Group), the IERG is getting a major face-lift; it has been transformed into CIRCE! (Here’s […]
