About the Minerva Lecture Series

The Minerva Lecture Series is a travelling, national forum through which the work of prominent Canadian learning researchers can be celebrated and shared with Canadians from all walks of life.

The goals of the Minerva Lecture Series are:

  1. to highlight the work of prominent Canadian researchers, at various stages of their careers;
  2. to showcase the quality and relevance of academic scholarship to public discussion and policy making about learning;
  3. to foster discussion between Canadian learning researchers and the general public to support greater understanding of learning issues by Canadians;
  4. to provide researchers with unique opportunities to learn about Canadians’ priority concerns in matters of learning;
  5. to demonstrate how learning research can inform and affect learning across all walks of life and for all Canadians;
  6. to make a singular contribution to the national learning landscape by stimulating exchanges and debates that could help support the development of a pan-Canadian learning agenda.

Each of our six speakers will deliver free lectures in a number of cities across the country. At the end of each set of presentations, a recorded lecture will be made available for download from our website.

In addition, papers prepared by all speakers will be made available through a special issue of our Journal of Applied Research on Learning early next summer.

The Minerva Lecture Series is an initiative of the Canadian Council on Learning and has been made possible by the generosity of our hosting partners.