20 educators visited the IERG from Taiwan in October. The IERG has been involved with the Taiwanese project Program of Futures Imagination and Creativity in Education, which is funded by the Taiwanese Ministry of Education. The program is headed by Dr. I-heng Chen, Director of the Asia Pacific Human Resources Management (HRM) Research Center. Our energetic and impressive visitors spent the first 2 days of their stay, from Oct. 14 to 17th, in workshops learning about Imaginative Education in theory and practice. They then visited schools where imaginative educators demonstrated IE in action and where quite varied IE programs are being implemented—thank you Dario Demetlika, Pam Hagen, Jonathan Sclater, Stephanie Boileau, and Hannah Myles!—the teachers who demonstrated IE in action with their classes. It was inspiring to us as well as to the Taiwanese visitors. One day was also spent on the Learning in Depth Program—introducing the program for some but also providing support for those already doing LiD in Taiwan.
Dr. Amber Yun-Ping Lee wrote, in response to the picture below, “It showed how happy and grateful we were during our stay in Vancouver last week.” The picture shows, standing at the rear, the Taiwanese visitors and in the front a small group of the children of Division 2 of Westwood school. Their teacher and our host for the visit was Dr. Pamela Hagen, crouched near the front right of the picture. Our grateful thanks to her!
