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.
#Futures literacy #imagination #counterfactual thinking