May 31, 2007

Registration is now open and highlights of this year’s conference include:

• Keynote speaker Vivan Gussin Paley (USA)
• Invited speakers Rosalind Horowitz (USA), Tony Sherborne (UK), Annabella Cant (Romania), David Berliner (USA) and Kieran Egan and Sean Blenkinsop of the IERG
• The 2nd Annual Research Symposium on Imaginative Education
• The 2nd meeting of the International Research Network on Imaginative Education (IRNIE)
• Special Session by Mark Fettes and his team reporting on results from their 5 year Community-University Research Alliance grant project for aboriginal education called “Learning for Understanding through Culturally inclusive Imaginative Development”(LUCID)
• A two-day pre-conference Professional Development Workshop in Imaginative Education
• Evening event options: Harbourview dinner or dinner boat cruise

When: July 18 – 21, 2007

Where: Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites, Vancouver

Click here to register: http://ierg.net/confs/registration.php?cf=2

For more information about the 5th International Conference on Imagination and Education, go to the conference page on the IERG website. To see the conference schedule, click here

The IERG is a group of researchers, teachers, graduate students, parents, and others who are striving to make education more effective through Imaginative Education. The theories, principles, and practices of Imaginative Education aim to engage students’ imaginations in learning, and teachers’ imaginations in teaching. Imaginative Education is already being applied in classrooms internationally through the work of active associates around the world. For more information about IERG, go to their website at www.ierg.net