This chapter explores the importance of imagination in higher education, discussing the challenges within the field and the need for confronting despair. It highlights the power of imagination in planting seeds of communication and hope, and discusses the value of slow ontology and leaving space for creativity. The chapter also delves into the book's sections on teaching assessment and learning design, showcasing examples of alternative approaches to education.
Catherine Cronin and Laura Czerniewicz share about Higher Education for Good on episode 504 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
People are in a state of despair.
-Laura Czerniewicz
Sometimes sets of values are at odds with the measuring systems in the university.
-Laura Czerniewicz
Little moments of glimmers of innovation, not in the business sense of the word, but in the imaginative sense of the word, are good enough.
-Laura Czerniewicz
We tried to model the values that we talk about in the process of creating the book.
-Catherine Cronin
We wanted to stretch open the boundaries of a book.
-Catherine Cronin