James C. Kaufman

James C. Kaufman is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut, USA. He has written/edited more than 50 books, including The Creativity Advantage and Lessons in Creativity from Musical Theatre Characters. James has developed many theories, most notably the Four C’s (with Ron Beghetto), as well as several self-report measures of creativity. He has won many awards, including Mensa’s research award, the Torrance Award from the National Association for Gifted Children, the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children’s International Creativity Award, and APA’s Berlyne, Arnheim, and Farnsworth awards.

Access Education

Access Education Programs

The Access Education Programs are an off campus extension of the University of Winnipeg’s Integrated Bachelor of Arts & Bachelor of Education Program. Our programs are designed to provide academic opportunities for people with inner city experience, as well as single parents, mature students, and immigrants.

Our Programs:

The University of Winnipeg Education Centre (WEC) offers a warm, supportive and educational environment that fosters learning and the belief that all of its students can become successful teachers.

The Immigrant Teacher Education Program (ITEP) was created to aid internationally trained teachers to gain experience in the Manitoba teaching profession through a unique curriculum of academic and practical courses and workshops.

The Community-based Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (CATEP) is designed to provide Aboriginal Educational Assistants with the opportunity to complete an Education degree while continuing to work.

Contact Us

General Inquiries

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Director
Dr. Derek Stovin
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Manager, Access Education
Kirk Dowson
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Coordinator, Access Education
Janet Cox
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Department Assistant
Lira Barrientos
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Academic Advisor - WEC & ITEP
Praveen Alahakoon
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Coordinator, CATEP
Ken Friesen-Cardinal
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Derek Stovin

Derek Stovin is an assistant professor and the Director of Access Education in the University of Winnipeg’s Faculty of Education, located in Manitoba, Canada. Graduating with a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 2021, he is an inter-disciplinary scholar with broad research interests in educational and higher educational administration and policy. Derek currently serves as Secretary of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education and as the book reviews section editor for the Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy.

Derek’s academic career began as a policy economist upon completing a M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Economics at the University of Saskatchewan in 1999. He then shifted focus from research in areas related to human capital, economic growth, and intellectual property to research in educational policy more broadly. In order to gain necessary experience and pursue his enjoyment of teaching, Derek returned to university as an adult learner to become a teacher in rural Saskatchewan. He earned a B.Ed. from the University of Windsor and an M.Ed. in Post-Secondary Studies from Memorial University of Newfoundland, which led to many years of research, administration, and policy analysis with Athabasca University and the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation.

Derek’s current research interests involve academic identity, professional identity, and the exploration of career-life experiences as they may relate to educational organization, leadership, and culture. He employs both quantitative and qualitative methods but is now most often attracted to narrative and interpretivist approaches to research. Derek teaches an introductory course related to current topics in education and a third-year course on approaches to teaching and learning.

Derek thanks his wonderful children Aidan, Rowan, and Elsie for their sacrifices and unwavering support, love, and understanding.

Christine Boyko-Head

Christine Boyko-Head (Ph.D. McMaster University, 1995) is an interdisciplinary scholar, creative education consultant, Thinking Preferences & Design Thinking facilitator, curriculum specialist, author and playwright. She has taught, presented, and published nationally and internationally. Between 2001-2011 she confirmed her belief in the empowerment of learners through the arts by teaching for Lesley University’s Integrated Teaching through the Arts Master of Education program. Currently, she applies creative problem solving and arts-based strategies in the college classroom to create anti-oppressive spaces enhancing learners’ creative-critical thinking. Her eclectic experiences include television production, creating and operating a social issues theatre company (1989-2002), co-founding an arts magazine for and by young people (1990-1995), creating a community mentoring four-year curriculum for youth (2001-2004), designing and implementing a million-dollar fundraising community campaign (2011-12), being an Ontario college program quality auditor (OQCAS), and researching applied theatre strategies to increase learner self-efficacy and literacy. Alert to new learning opportunities, she is currently trialing an intercultural collaboration between Canadian post-secondary students and elementary students in Croatia. She is also designing a creativity curriculum for recovering substance abusers in her community. Her energized, interactive workshops have given her the opportunity to meet dedicated educators and life-long learners around the world including 21 states in the USA, Israel, Turkey, Jordan, Portugal, France and now Finland. She lives in Southern Ontario, Canada and teaches at Mohawk College.

Karen Magro

Dr. Karen Magro, Professor of Education, University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Karen completed her doctoral studies in adult learning theories, literacy education, and counselling psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto in 1999. Her research, teaching, and consulting work are in adult learning, transformative learning theory, creativity, social justice education, arts based education, museum studies, English language arts education, emotional intelligence and educational leadership, teachers’ personal philosophies of practice, and refugee and newcomer studies. Dr. Magro has written many articles and book chapters. She has been both a leading contributor and editor of several books, most recently, Transcultural literacies: Re-visioning relationships in teaching and learning (Magro & Honeyford, 2019: Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press. Karen has over 30 years of experience as an educator and consultant, and has taught both nationally and internationally. Dr. Magro has earned numerous awards for her work in teaching and research.

Karen is currently working on a Global Citizenship book; her focus explores the importance of teachers encouraging literacies of compassion and hope in a changing world (Kornelsen, Balzer, & Magro, 2020). She is also completing a book on creative teaching in English language arts education. Karen also continues to serve as the Editor-in-Chief for The International Journal of Talent Development and Creativity, ICIE.

Special Event

Leland Lee Art Exhibition

Leland Lee’s artworks are joyful and invigorating-- a soulful reflection of Leland’s person and inner world. His artistic talent was discovered and certified as “exceptionally gifted” at the age of seven. Leland uses bold colors, intricate shaped blocks filled with golden yellow, fiery red, bright orange, teal, purple, turquoise, and royal blue, accentuated by gold or silver lines are often found in his compositions. It’s remarkable that the strong contrasting colors achieve an incredible harmony, all without the formal training in color theory.

Leland has been presented on many platforms, receiving awards and recognitions, meeting dignitaries such as Pope Francis and Taiwan President; to him he is just doing what he loves, telling his views and stories by painting, showing his world is filled with vibrancy and love.

Leland was born in May 1989 in Los Angeles, California. He currently resides in Taipei, Taiwan.

Presenting paintings on canvas and scrolls by Leland Lee, an artist from Taiwan, this exhibition sends the message of Love from Taiwan.

From Leland’s perspective, there is love everywhere and at any time. Words like “LOVE”, “Anytime” and the symbol of hearts frequently appear in his paintings. His world is full of possibilities and abundance of love, empowering him to communicate his outlook on life through his paintings.

Each painting is a reflection of Leland’s life experiences and is shown with exceptional visual acuity and vivid imagination. We are to love and achieve harmony with the planets, people and animals, any time!

Leland Lee’s artistic creation is not limited by time and space. The landscape and people he sees are recreated into collage-like, imaginative images of memory. Through using extending, dividing lines and basic units in bold, variegated colors, Leland constructs a fantastic world he envisages, guiding his audience to traverse reality with his unique perspective. The colors in Leland’s works are unfettered and rainbow-like; the unrestrained lines run freely with imagination on the canvas.