All About Us
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Educational Insights is
a peer-reviewed electronic journal sponsored by the
Centre for Cross Faculty Inquiry (formerly the Centre
for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction), Faculty
of Education, at the University of British Columbia.
Our location however, resides in the practices, theories,
ambitions and dreams of our Editorial Circle, who are
scholars and educators from across Canada, and into
the United States. (See Editorial Circle).
The Editorial Circle, curriculum
theorists, writers, and pedagogical adventurers, are
presently repositioning Educational Insights as an
innovative evocative provocative intertextual space
for engaging in new dialogues of enRapturing con/texts
and reimagining spaces of pedagogy, inquiry, and interdisciplinarity.
Our intent is to encourage a community that honours
difference and polyphony, while sharing a vision of
pedagogy, education, inquiry as spaces of challenge
and hopeful conversations.
Educational Insights originated
in 1990 as a publishing venue for graduate students.
In 1995, co-editors, Gary Rasberry and David Penberg,
moved the journal from hard copy to cyberspace, a decision
which has proven prophetic in terms of 21st century
communications and hermeneutic meaning-making. While
the initial journal issues were limited to linear text
presentation, there is now the opportunity to explore
pedagogical and curricular positioning through sound,
video, non-linear and performative text. In celebration
of the 25th year of the Centre for the Study of Curriculum
and Instruction, Director Karen Meyer proposed that
Educational Insights be imagined anew as an international
journal open to all scholars whose work encourages
new ways of envisioning educational issues, pedagogy,
curriculum, inquiry, and interdisciplinarity.
Educational Insights Course
Offering
Graduate students currently matriculating
at University of British Columbia's Faculty of Education
are encouraged to join the Educational Insights adventure
through an exciting and thought-provoking six credit
course leading to the journal's publication.
An additional one-year commitment
beyond the course is appreciated but not required.
The editorial and production work includes:
- Engaging in Educational discourses
- Screening manuscripts
- Reading and critiquing manuscripts in preparation
for the Editorial Circle's consideration
- meeting once a week (usually 2.5 hours)
- Editorial work on manuscripts after they have been
accepted for on-line publication
- working collaboratively to bring an issue to publication.
Beyond the manuscript-related activities,
the team is also responsible for coordinating production,
meeting with potential writers, taking responsibility
for individual special issues.
We invite you to join us in this
exciting work!
We may be reached at:
Educational Insights
Centre for Cross Faculty Inquiry, Faculty of Education,
University of British Columbia, 2125 Main Mall, Vancouver,
B.C., Canada, V6T 1Z4.
Tel: (604) 822-6502 Fax: (604) 822-8234
E-mail: educational.insights@ubc.ca
Homepage: www.ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights |
