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Simon Fraser University
The British Columbia research university where Egan spent his entire fifty-year academic career and where the Imaginative Education Research Group he co-founded continues to develop and extend his framework after his death.
Simon Fraser University provided the institutional home for the entire arc of Egan's intellectual project. From his arrival in 1972 until his death in 2022, Egan developed his framework at SFU's Faculty of Education, collaborated with colleagues who became his closest intellectual partners, and co-founded the Imaginative Education Research Group that continues to develop his framework and train educators in its application. The university remains the primary institutional center of imaginative education research globally, maintaining Learning in Depth programs, publishing research on cognitive tools, and hosting international conferences that bring together educators and researchers engaged with Egan's framework.
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The Imaginative Education Research Group, founded in 2001, provides graduate training, develops curriculum materials, conducts research, and serves as the primary institutional vehicle through which Egan's framework reaches practicing educators. The group has trained hundreds of doctoral students, many of whom have become leading educational researchers in their own right.
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