Fear and Falling in Love with the Future: Field Notes from a Time-Travelling Educator
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Speculative Design, Autoethnography, Futures, Education, Transformational LearningResumé
Explores the lived experience of facilitating speculative design (SD) workshops in entrepreneurship and sustainability education through a dialogic structure that moves between the internal monologue of an educator navigating fear, uncertainty, and self-doubt, and
scholarly explanations of SD's history, methods, and pedagogical implications.
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