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Welcome to Dialogue!
Dialogue magazine engages, informs and inspires with bright ideas and latest practices, thoughtful reflections and practical insights, points of view and points for debate. Dialogue features articles by and for Canada's independent school educators — all focused on a particular theme.
Issue No. 5 (Spring 2008) explores the ins & outs of Creativity and Imagination in Schools
Where do creativity and imagination fit in society and how does that relate to what students experience at school? What role do schools play in developing the creative abilities of learners and teachers?
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Sixteen educators from accross Canada write expressively and
passionately about the scope and far-reaching impact, and importance, of creativity and imagination in their teaching and for their students...
- How learning in depth nourishes the imagination
- Character and hard work as help mates to creative genius
- Cultivating imaginative throught in the fields of math
- When creative writing classes to radio-active
- And MORE!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Left, right, left, Right
Striding toward intelligence
Todd Royer
I am on playground supervision. Children ages six, seven and eight are playing together under the sweeping branches of great pines. Many have made houses by clearing away pine needles on the forest floor. The world of children is the world of imagination. It is overflowing with creative juices, ingenuity, inventiveness and it is serious business....read the article
Trumpeting a Cause
How learning in depth nourishes the imagination
Kieran Egan
What does it mean to be an educated person? Commonly mentioned, among other things, are a significant breadth and depth of knowledge: the educated person must be aware of a wide array of the forms of knowledge humans have created, and must know something in considerable detail....read the article
CESI Panel Discussion
Meeting the needs of students: How far should schools go?
Compiled by Maureen Murray
Responding to the needs of a broad range of students is a pivotal issue many independent schools in Canada are grappling with. This is a report on the November 2007 CESI Panel discussion on differentiated education...read the article
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