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The end of schools, poverty dance
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August 29, 2008
Are schools passé?
Leaping all over global poverty
Schools are so yesterday
SFU education professor Kieran Egan's new book, The Future of Education: Re-imagining the school from the ground up, offers a "frontal attack on current forms of schooling and a radical rethinking of the whole education process." Egan, a prize-winning scholar who pioneered the concept of imaginative education, argues that eduction today is built on a set of mutually exclusive goals that are destined to defeat best efforts. His new book, published in September by Yale University Press, demonstrates the "hopeless" state of today's educational institutions, and offers practical solutions to the problem.
Kieran Egan, 778.782.4671, (h) 604.261.1533, egan@sfu.ca
One giant leap for humanity
SFU Dance student Kim Dixon is among the international dancers who will take their collective Passion to Fight Poverty to the stage at Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver on Sunday, Sept. 7, at 6:30 pm. The elegant evening, featuring a variety of dance performances and styles, is the brainchild of SFU Business alum Sasha Evans, a lifelong dancer and member of the student-led anti-poverty group Global Agents for Change. All proceeds will help the non-profit group to fund micro-finance projects in the developing world. Tickets: 604.984.4484 or at the door.
Kim Dixon, 778.389.0869
Sasha Evans, 778.288.7274, sevans@odlumbrown.com
Leaping all over global poverty
Schools are so yesterday
SFU education professor Kieran Egan's new book, The Future of Education: Re-imagining the school from the ground up, offers a "frontal attack on current forms of schooling and a radical rethinking of the whole education process." Egan, a prize-winning scholar who pioneered the concept of imaginative education, argues that eduction today is built on a set of mutually exclusive goals that are destined to defeat best efforts. His new book, published in September by Yale University Press, demonstrates the "hopeless" state of today's educational institutions, and offers practical solutions to the problem.
Kieran Egan, 778.782.4671, (h) 604.261.1533, egan@sfu.ca
One giant leap for humanity
SFU Dance student Kim Dixon is among the international dancers who will take their collective Passion to Fight Poverty to the stage at Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver on Sunday, Sept. 7, at 6:30 pm. The elegant evening, featuring a variety of dance performances and styles, is the brainchild of SFU Business alum Sasha Evans, a lifelong dancer and member of the student-led anti-poverty group Global Agents for Change. All proceeds will help the non-profit group to fund micro-finance projects in the developing world. Tickets: 604.984.4484 or at the door.
Kim Dixon, 778.389.0869
Sasha Evans, 778.288.7274, sevans@odlumbrown.com