Educational Insights | Volume 8, Number 1

All About Us
Editorial Circle Editorial & Production Team All About Us A lovely thing to see: through the paper window's hole, the Galaxy - Issa Educational Insights is an electronic journal sponsored by 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 the Study of Curriculum & Instruction, 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.csci.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights



Editorial Circle

David Abram Independent Scholar, U.S.A. Marla Arvay University of British Columbia Gabrielle Minnes Brandes University of British Columbia Cynthia Chambers University of Lethbridge Ardra Cole OISE-University of Toronto Brent Davis University of Alberta Sidney Fels University of British Columbia Tara Goldstein OISE-University of Toronto Johnna Haskell Carrabassett Valley Academy Wanda Hurren University of Regina David Jardine University of Calgary Lyubov Laroche University of British Columbia Sonia MacPherson University of Alberta Michael Marker University of British Columbia Lorri Neilsen Mount Saint Vincent University Antoinette Oberg University of Victoria Tan Phan San Diego State University Susan Pirie University of British Columbia Celeste Snowber Simon Fraser University Lynn Thomas Bishop's University Rena Upitis Queen's University		Douglas Aoki University of Alberta Pille Bunnell Independent Scholar, British Columbia Tony Clarke University of British Columbia Jacques Daignault University of Laval Rishma Dunlop York University Renée Fountain University of Laval Roy Graham University of Victoria Erika Hasebe-Ludt University of Lethbridge Jim Hu University College of the Cariboo Rita Irwin University of British Columbia Carl Leggo University of British Columbia Warren Linds University of Regina and Gabriel Dumont Institute SUNTEP Faith Maina State University of New York, Oswego Karen Meyer University of British Columbia Renee Norman University of British Columbia David Penberg Bank Street College of Education William Pinar Louisiana State University gw rasberry The Old School House Yarker Ontario Dennis Sumara University of Alberta Brenda Trofanenko University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne Patrick Verriour University of British Columbia


Editorial and Production Team

Luanne Armstrong University of British Columbia Barbara Bickel University of British Columbia Marcia Braundy University of British Columbia Brent Cameron University of British Columbia Avraham Cohen University of British Columbia David Darts University of British Columbia Martin Elliott Vancouver, British Columbia Lynn Fels University of British Columbia Carol Fulton University of British Columbia Karen Hawkins University of British Columbia Eric Henderson University of Victoria June Kaminski University of British Columbia		Wendy Perttula University of British Columbia Kathy Price Century College Kadi Purru University of British Columbia Ken Schramm University of British Columbia Faith Shields University of British Columbia Madeline Sonik University of British Columbia Giuseppe Tambasco University of British Columbia Munir Vellani University of British Columbia Ursula Velonis Simon Fraser University Sean Wiebe University of British Columbia Meg Zuccaro Simon Fraser University

ISSN 1488-3333
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