Fiction as a method to imagine higher education futures

Abstract

Who creates the future of higher education? Should we wait for the future to come to us, or should we be part of creating it? This article describes fiction as a method to imagine higher education futures. It discusses the plurality of education fiction and acknowledges its potential to be speculative yet informed. Examples of how students and academics write fiction to imagine higher education futures are provided to illustrate the approach. In conclusion, it is argued that education fiction can help us act in the present by exploring undesirable education futures to avoid and hopeful ones to strive towards.

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