About me
Gillian Judson is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University (SFU). At the SFU Surrey campus she gratefully works and learns on unceded Indigenous traditional territories, including those of the Semiahmoo, Katzie, kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Kwantlen, Qayqayt and Tsawwassen Nations. Dr. Judson’s scholarship examines imagination’s role in leadership, learning (PreK-post-secondary), and imaginative and ecological teaching practices (PreK through post- secondary). Her latest books include: Cultivating Imagination in Leadership: Transforming Schools and Communities (Judson & Dougherty, Eds., Teachers College Press, 2023), Imagination and the Engaged Learner: Cognitive Tools for the Classroom (Egan & Judson, Teachers College Press, 2016), Engaging Imagination in Ecological Education: Practical Strategies for Teaching (UBC Press, 2015), A Walking Curriculum (2018/2019), and A Walking Curriculum for the Early Years (2023).