IMAGINATIVE INQUIRY is a pedagogy that enrolls students as a team of experts who encounter complex, real-world problems in an imaginary context. Guided by inquiry and fueled by research, students are immersed in authentic, place-based learning that engages not only their intellectual capacities, but also their physical, social, and emotional selves. As active participants in a fictional context, students use their skills, knowledge, emotions, and moral instincts to analyze situations, make decisions, and understand their impact on others.

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SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR IMAGINATIVE INQUIRY
A four-day intensive introduction into the methods of Imaginative Inquiry, where participants experience examples of lessons for grades K-6 and explore how the conventions, techniques, and philosophy of Imaginative Inquiry strengthen students’ social imagination, allowing them to create, reflect, and practice becoming agents of change in our world.