19. Imagination and justice: Teaching the future(s) of higher education through Africanfuturist speculative fiction
Felicitas Macgilchrist,
Eamon Costello
Abstract:How might inclusion, equity, justice, care and sustainability be set to glimmer in higher education? This chapter draws on educational theory, critical research, and storytelling - in particular Africanfuturist science fiction - to dream new educational interfaces that are oriented for good. The chapter first maps out a 15 week course where students study the Africanfuturist science fiction novella Binti before writing their own storied futures for higher education in response. In the second half of the chapt… Show more
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