Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
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added by Keely Adler · updated 20d ago
added by Keely Adler · updated 20d ago
Americans look to our GDP as a report card on the performance of government. But how might we evaluate government’s performance on its moral charge, found in a government’s original social contract to actively care for the well-being of its society?
Radical Curiosity questions commonly held beliefs to imagine flourishing futures. To be radically curious is to challenge the narratives inherited from the past and author new stories that reflect who we are and what we value today. It is to recognize when our collective wisdom, like any outdated technology, needs an operating system upgrade.
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Sendak understood that stories can be scary. He believed that we should all—kids and adults alike—experience stories that deliver encounters with all the emotions available to us; that scary stories are how we become prepared for any eventuality. Indeed, this is the very reason we need stories. We don’t do well with uncertainty, and so we seek out
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The word “radical” was borrowed in the fourteenth century from the Latin radicalis, meaning “root.” Radical questioning is necessary because it is the roots, the essential foundations, of today’s problems that need to be excavated and interrogated. The more fundamental the question, the more fertile the ground for imagining.
What if we put our money, time and energy into what we say matters most? What if this school year celebrated imagination? In We Got This, Cornelius Minor reminds us that “education should function to change outcomes for whole communities.” What if we designed a school year that sought to radically shift how communities imagine, problem solve, heal,
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Too often, legacy narratives serve only a small group of people who possess power or, at their most destructive, actively disempower certain groups, populations, or ways of being in the world. When social systems fail to truly serve vast numbers of people and communities, that is when we see challenger narratives begin to emerge.
In large part this is because education, like most social systems, is slow to adapt, iterate, and evolve to be relevant for changing times. The glacial pace of change of the education system cannot match the agility of the real world, where a single moment can rewrite and reorganize its foundations.
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What if we defined “learning” as any experience that helped us realize how to live meaningful lives and contribute to a better world?
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We take the profound power of conjuring new expressions, interpretations, and constructed worlds for granted.
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