Document Type
Article
Abstract
This article explores the notion of pedagogical imagination in the context of its practical use in teaching young learners today. The idea of imagination is being presented through the lens of the existing concepts such as ethnographic, historical, and sociological imagination introduced in the social sciences and humanities by various authors. The educational setting of today’s digitalized reality is being understood here as a sociocultural sphere where different generations clash in their diverse abilities to learn and form specific skills that might help them to cope with difficult real life situations. The process of forming heroic behavior patterns is thus taken as a part of a wider phenomenon of change in the learning modes of Generation Z and Generation Alpha. The generational divide is presented in this paper as a cultural issue taking also place in the register of different communication patterns between various age cohorts. Thus, it becomes crucial to look at the new tendencies in teaching and learning from the ethnographic perspective which gives us direct insight into the Gen Z’s educational demands and their subjective schooling experience.
DOI
10.26736/hs.2025.01.04
Recommended Citation
Drozdowicz, Jarema
(2025)
"The Reluctant Heroes: How to Teach Younger Generations Every-Day Heroism Through Pedagogical Imagination,"
Heroism Science: Vol. 10:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
DOI: 10.26736/hs.2025.01.04
Available at:
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/heroism-science/vol10/iss1/4