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This short chapter reviews some of the ways that imagination is promoted and sometimes learned in and around schools. Parents and teachers try to help children view, review, and work with things that expand their purview. At school, we are shown places, things, and techniques we never imagined before. Such envisioning can be done in ways that are prescriptive and limiting to the course’s test on the topic. Today many are pushing to make the experiences more explorational by exposing students to possibilities, places, and things, and techniques can be used with material already known and motivation to find out more.
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Selker, T. (2023). Teaching Imagination and Future-Sha** Skills: What Do Universities Offer Students to Help Them Imagine and Invent?. In: Carleton, T., West, S., Cockayne, W.R. (eds) Inventing the Almost Impossible. Future of Business and Finance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36224-8_7
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