Based on a widely held belief that immersion provides the best language learning opportunities, a large number of Asian students go to English-speaking countries to improve their English language skills. These strongly motivated learners arrive in a new country with a bag of expectations, learner beliefs, and imaginations about the new community they are about to enter. However, learners are of...

Early childhood/educational environmental imaginations transmit national, global and planetary views of the world through texts, visual representations material objects. These produce politics, including nationalism globalism, play a part in policy making as well how children learn to view relate world. Education, however, needs new political attractor during anthropogenic climate change that d...

Crystal balls are generally considered as a medium to perform divination or fortune-telling. These imaginations are mainly from some fantasy films and fictions, in which an augur can see into past, present, or future through a crystal ball. With the different impressions, crystal ball has revealed itself a perfect interface for the users to access and to manipulate visual media in an intuitive,...

Since thousands of years ago, people around the world have been looking up into the sky, trying to find patterns of visible stars’ distribution, and dividing them into different groups called constellations. Originally, constellations are recognized and organized by people’s imaginations based on the shapes of the star distribution. The most two famous groups of stars is the “Big Dipper” and th...