[Early History] McGill Summer Institute

McGill Summer Institute: John O’Brien, Jack Pearpoint, Judith Snow, John McKnight, Marsha Forest, Evy Lusthaus and children

The McGill Summer Institute was a creation of the Centre for Integrated Education & Community (later the Marsha Forest Centre) – with the drive and leadership of Marsha Forest – and her band of compatriots who were committed to a vision of ‘Education for all’ – Together. The terminology of the time was integration… mainstreaming… The term INCLUSION did not come into this movement until Oct. 1989 when a gathering of frustrated like minded activists from North America met at Frontier College. One of the issues was that terms like ‘integration’ had been rendered meaningless, so one strategy the group adopted was to begin using the word INCLUSION…

What follows is a limited collection of documents from the McGill Summer Institute archives. They are not intended to be comprehensive, but rather an important historical slice of the complexity and struggles to impact the culture and values of the country and the world to welcome all into full citizenship – one tiny step at a time.

McGill Summer Institute – selected documents (1984-1994)

McGill Newsletter.1993-4.MSummer Institute

McGill.SI.1994.Schedule

McGill SI Feedback overheads.1993??

McGill.SI.July.1993.Notes from Week One

McGill Photo Album 1986 https://youtu.be/RGmRydXWamQ

McGill.SI.Pamphlets.1990.91.92.93.94

Various fliers.1992ish

Graphic Notes.TEXAS.Inst.June.1994

McGill.SI.Pamphlets.1990.91.92.93.94

McGill.SI.Leaving.July.1994.poem

McGill.SI.CONFIDENTIAL.End.docs