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Human Factors of a Global Society
book

Human Factors of a Global Society

by Tadeusz Marek, Waldemar Karwowski, Marek Frankowicz, Jussi Kantola, Pavel Zgaga
June 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
1177 pages
50h 23m
English
CRC Press
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The Function of Imagination
in University Science
David Brian Hay
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain (1892)
INTRODUCTION
This paper concerns the function of the imagination (cf. Bakhtin 1981, 1986) in scientic research
and in science education. Michael Bakhtin’s dialogic theory—sometimes referred to as a theory
of the literary or social imagination (see Holquist 2005)—is a robust account of intertextuality
(Kristeva 1986a), whereby new insight and new imaginative understanding are seen to be produced
in the inter-animation of one and “an other” text (Wegerif 2007, 2008). In this paper, using dialogic
the
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