Educational Insights | Volume 10, Number 1, 2006

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 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



Editorial Circle

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


Editorial and Production Team

Jiryung Ahn University of British Columbia Luanne Armstrong University of British Columbia Jenny Arnzten University of British Columbia Barbara Bickel University of British Columbia Martin Elliott Vancouver, British Columbia Lynn Fels University of British Columbia		Patti Fraser University of British Columbia Naili Huang University of British Columbia Betty Rideout University of British Columbia Madeline Sonik University of British Columbia Chris Yakimov University of British Columbia Jing Yang University of British Columbia

ISSN 1488-3333
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