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When one advocates for emergent curriculum, the question always arises about meeting standards. I do believe that any interest can be used as a basis for addressing any state standard, however, sometimes we teachers are not as creative as we would like to be. So, the purpose of this page is to consider how Imaginative Education principles can be used with something that must be taught but that is not so far connected with student interest.

Amazingly, there exists a global network of folks who value and use Imaginative Education principles in teaching and learning. Ok, so perhaps that is not all that amazing, after all it was a realy smart, data driven, research oriented physicist, Albert Einstien, who said, "Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." Sometimes those of us in the business of education get so caught up in data driven, evidence-based decison making that we forget about the power imagination can have on moving education forward. Imagination often marks the path to what can happen next and using Imaginative Education Principles can spark the answer the age old teaching question: "What can we do on Monday?" especially when immediate interests do not seem to be emergining.

The Imaginative Education Research Group (IERG) has its home base at Simon Fraiser University in Vancouver, British Columia, Canada. They sponsor international conferences on imaginative education and provide teachers world-wide with practical guidelines for using imagination to stimulate effective lesson planning and learning. To discover more about how to use Imaginative Education principles, [] will take you right to the Imaginative Education Research Group portal.