This workshop session was part of the Superintendent Conference. Imagination is part of the higher order thinking. It challenges and pushes us to see beyond what is possible for our contexts now. In other words, it may come to the ability to imagine what is perceived to be impossible or even unimaginable.
I relate this very much to the speech "I have a dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King. It was a social imagination that was perceived impossible and/or unimaginable for most people at that time. I am sure people in the US have come a long way in overcoming the racial divides. The greatest achievement is the election of an African American president, Barack Obama. I would like to apply the same approach in how we view our planet and global citizenship. We have to break down the stereotypes, prejudices, and other cultural barriers in developing better coalitions in solving our global issues. In addition, we need to build the capacity for empathy, and this should be used as the basis of any social interaction. This was my working philosophy in the workshop.
The main conclusions were:
- What we imagine is influenced by our identities, values, and experiences.
- Imagining and reimagining our world should start by challenging our stereotypes and prejudices and developing our capacity for empathy.
- Imagining and reimagining is a lifelong process as we should keep making constant improvement in how we understand others.
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