CNL for teaching

Liisi Pajula
University of Tartu, Estonia

Emanuele Bardone
University of Tartu, Estonia

Expanding Possible Futures

Using counterfactual possibilities to expand imagined futures

The realisation of the „grandest sociotechnical imaginary of our time“ (Beck et al. 2021, 143) – sustainability –  depends on the imagination and creation of a future radically different from the present. In order to achieve that, future first needs to be opened up: options now presented as unavoidable and their realisation “only a matter of time” need to be problematised and scrutinised. Next, imaginative work is vital to help create alternative visions of what’s possible. In initial teacher training, counterfactual possibilities can provide prospective teachers with the tools to start examining what is considered a “given” about the future (of education) and possibly generate more radical desirable imaginaries of what is possible.

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