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This issue of Educational Insights is about widening circles, balancing acts, maintaining equilibrium, pushing the limits of what counts as “research,” writing with shapes and colours, opening new spaces, finding a counterpoint between image and word. It is about autobiography and life history, listening, and through words and images welcoming and making a place for emotion, intertextuality, the other, grace, and the unknown. In so many ways the authors, whose work appears in this issue both reflects and advances the ethos of the Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry here at the University of British Columbia.

 

CCFI also has stories of becoming. It too is a place of “formativity.” It too, reflected in publications such as this and the work that our own students undertake, is a space of emergence that seeks to envisage education as a way to hope and freedom. I am delighted to welcome these caring francophone voices into a space that is collegial, and where faculty and students pursue scholarship and conversation within cross-disciplinary inquiry paradigms that welcome innovation, and insightful and new ways of engagement with important educational questions.

 

Over the years my favourite journals have been those with substantial "commentary" sections. Consequently I am delighted to see the emergence of the new Eductional Insights feature: Diary. Please accept Jacyntha England's invitation to question ourselves.  How are we living hope? And please spend time to dwell in Renée Fountain's poignant and questioning, but hope-full narrative. Then, as Renée asks: "And you?"

 

 

Graeme Chalmers

Director

Centre for Cross Faculty Inquiry