By Jasmin Ring (MEd in Imaginative Education, Secondary School Educator) It’s 10:30 AM on November 11th and the sounds of hundreds of shuffling feet echo through the school. You file into the gym, pausing to take a poppy. You scan the crowd eagerly looking for your friends and you all rush to sit together on […]
Category: Imaginative Historical Education & Inquiry (IHI): Activities & Insights
Posts exploring the intersection of imagination, Imaginative Education, Historical Education/Humanities, and inquiry. Philosophic discussion & practical ideas across the social sciences.
Breaking Down the Impossible Binary Between Student-Centered and Content-Centered Instruction
Each year, thousands of enthusiastic and hope-filled candidates enter various Teacher Education and Professional Development Programs across the country. If they are anything like my own younger and admittedly saltier self, they arrive with idealistic and sometimes even radical notions about becoming a more engaging, caring and generally ‘better’ kind of teacher than they perceive […]
Understanding Inquiry as the Practice of Freedom
In an attempt to more adequately understand the nature of inquiry, one eventually – and quite necessarily – runs into questions of philosophic purpose. Fortunately enough for us, educational theory isn’t terribly shy in this regard. Economic utility, building a peaceful and pluralistic society, and honouring students’ nascent potential all have staked their claim to […]