Series consists of non-textual records (special media) created by the Faculty of Education and maintained separately from the textual files. Records include photographs, audio-visual recordings, and audio recordings.
The fonds consists of records made and received by the Faculty of Education in the course of administering its programs and operations. Activities documented include policy and procedures development, budget planning, and relations with staff, faculty members, and students; the self-governance of the faculty through the faculty meeting and faculty committees; the evolution of the faculty's administrative structure and its re-organizations; the administration of faculty departments and centres (prior to 1972) and program area divisions (after 1972); the development of curriculum and delivery of courses; liaison with other SFU bodies and departments, other universities, government bodies and agencies, school boards, and professional associations relating to education; and special events held by the faculty, including conferences, colloquia, and public lecture series. Textual records include meeting agenda and minutes, reports, correspondence, publications, statistics, notes and working papers. Non-textual media include photographic material, architectural drawings, and audio and audio-visual recordings. For more detailed descriptions, see the series-level descriptions.
Note that there are a number of gaps in the coverage of the fonds. No records have been transferred from the Dean's office (series 1) for the period after 1984. The series of committee records (series 3) includes no or very few files from several of the faculty's standing committees (Field Programs, Appointments, Tenure and Promotion, and Research Opportunities). The holdings of the early centres and departments of the faculty (series 4) are slight, with the exception of those for the Department of Behavioural Science Foundations. Of the program area divisions established after the 1972 reorganization (five as of 2008), only one (Professional Programs) has transferred its records to the Archives (series 5).
Faculty of EducationThe theme of SITE 1985 was "Quality School Through Staff Development". Speakers were Marv Wideen (SFU), Leo Marshall (North Vancouver School District), Linda Kaser (BC Ministry of Education), Kit Grauer (Richmond School District), Anna Steffin (Delta School District), Robert Stake (University of Illinois), Michael Fullan (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education), Walter Doyle (University of Texas), Maurice Gibbons (SFU), David Hopkins (West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education), Lou Rubin (University of Illinois), Stan Shapson (SFU), and Ian Andrews (SFU). Records consist of audio cassettes.
The theme of SITE 1984 was "Computers in Education". Speakers were Daniel Watt, Nancy Flodin (British Columbia Teachers' Federation), Molly Watt, Seymour Papert, Gordon Lawrence (University of Florida), and Sandy Dawson (SFU). Records consist of audio cassettes.
The theme of the SITE 1983 was "New Directions in Counselling and Education". Speakers were Dr. David Aspy (Texas Women's University), Dr. Bernard Berenson (American International College), Dr. Lloyd West (University of Calgary), Dr. Jack Martin (SFU), and Dr. Bryan Hiebert (SFU). Records comprise audio cassettes.
Speakers at SITE 1987 were Tom Schroeder (University of Calgary), Robby Fried (Brown University), Wanda Cassidy (SFU), Milton McClaren (SFU), Robert Walker (SFU), and Kim Campbell (MLA). Records consist of audio cassettes.
The theme of SITE 1988 was "Global Issues". Speakers recorded were Lucy McNeil (broadcaster), Robert Moore (Canadian International Development Agency), Milton McClaren (SFU), Fred Knelman, Stephen Owen, David Selby (University of York), and George McRobbie (University of Pennsylvania). Records consist of audio cassettes.
Sub-series consists of audio recordings (cassettes) of a three-day public lecture series held by the Faculty of Education in July 1985, called "The Future of Education Research." Speakers were Robin Barrow (SFU), Jonas Soltis (Columbia University), Kieran Egan (SFU), Denis Phillips (Stanford University), LeRoy Daniels (University of British Columbia), and John Wilson (Oxford University). Records consist of audio cassettes.
Sub-series consists of audio recordings (cassettes) of a month-long series public lectures co-sponsored by the Faculty of Education and the Institute for the Humanities in July-Auguust 1986, called the J.S. Woodsworth Summer Instittute on Peace and War. Speakers were Dr. Ursula Franklin (University of Toronto), Dr. Magaret Benston (SFU), Dr. Martin Kitchen (SFU), Dr. David Barash, Dr. Neil Kyle, George Ignatieff (University of Toronto), Dr. Doug Ross (SFU), Dr. William Vanderburg (University of Toronto), and Joanna Miller (UNICEF Canada).
Sub-series consists of audio recordings (cassettes) of the public lectures presented as part of the Faculty of Education's annual Summer Institute in Teacher Education (SITE). Note that there are no recordings for 1986.
Records consists predominantly of correspondence, reports and course-related material. See sub-series descriptions for more detailed information. The audio cassettes are found in sub-sub-series 1 ("Director's subject files").
Faculty of Education. Professional ProgramsSeries consists of records made or received by the Director of the Professional Programs division of the Faculty of Education in the course of administering the program area.
Activities documented include policy development, budget planning, and staffing, including the hiring and orientation of school and faculty associates (professionals from the BC school system seconded to assist in the delivery of the PDP program); curriculum and program planning, including First Nations education, French immersion, and decentralization of SFU's PDP program; conferences, colloquia, liaison with school districts, and administration of external PDP sites; liaison with faculty task forces and committees, other units in the faculty, other SFU departments, other universities, provincial government ministries and agencies, and educational and professional associations; and student relations, advising, and post-graduation employment.
Records include correspondence, reports, proposals, statistics, program information, orientation packages and handbooks, lists of faculty associates, policies and procedures, event schedules, notes and working papers, and printed reference material.
For a list of organizations included in the correspondence, see the "Access points" section below.
Sub-series consists of the agendas, minutes, and supporting papers of the Faculty Meeting. Supporting papers include reports, policy and curriculum proposals and recommendations, motions, and course descriptions. There are four audio cassettes recording the proceedings of an Extraordinary Faculty Meeting in April 1978.
Faculty of Education. Faculty MeetingSeries consists of the records of committees of the Faculty of Education and documents their activities and deliberations. Records include meeting agendas, minutes, supporting papers, committee correspondence, and reports; also includes one sound recording relating to an Extraordinary Faculty Meeting in April 1978 (sub-series 3, file 30).
This collection consists of records created, collected and commissioned by Terry Hunter and Savannah Walling co-founders of creative collaboration known as the Vancouver Moving Theatre. The records in this collection document the history of Hunter and Walling’s artistic collaborations beginning in 1978.
Terry Hunter and Savannah Walling Collection consists of visual and audio recordings of performances of the Vancouver Moving Theatre from 1978-2007. It also contains textual records documenting promotional material and publications created to publicize and to review activities of the Vancouver Moving Theatre. These records covering activity period from 1983-2022 include ephemera, excerpts of serial publications, newspaper articles and special publications that document the VMT projects in detail. Part of the textual records contains financial statements of the VMT and educational resources created to aid in development of children and adult art projects. The educational resources were developed over the years and were based on the individual performance prepared by the VMT.
This series contains promotional material created to promote performances and events prepared by the Vancouver Moving Theatre group. This series covers time frame from 1973 to 2024. The performances took place in different venues in Vancouver as well as in different cities in Canada and worldwide. The promotional material consists of performances programs, press releases, flyers, brochures, posters, poster boards, postcards and publications.
This series contains video and audio recordings of the Vancouver Moving Theatre performances at various venues and during various festival events in Canada and worldwide. Some recordings contain footage of full-length performances, rehearsals, and auditions shots with wide and/or close-up angles as well as some excerpts of various performances intended for promotional purposes. Some recordings contain news coverage of the performances and events, interviews with cast and organizers, talks as well as educational workshops.