This study aims to re-examine the concept of geographical imagination and clarify its educational implications within a rapidly changing contemporary context. Using a literature review, the study examined the epistemological and ontological expansion of the concept through the works of geographers such as Wright, Harvey, and Gregory. Consequently, the concept was reconstructed into three key layers within the context of geography education: sensibility, criticality, and practicality. The results indicate that geographical imagination is a dynamic thinking competence characterized by the intersection of these three layers. First, the ‘sensibility’ layer serves as an aesthetic and cognitive foundation that mediates between private and public geographies, imbuing places with unique meanings. Second, the ‘criticality’ layer acts as critical literacy, decoding power relations and social contradictions concealed behind texts and landscapes through the space-society dialectic. Third, the ‘practicality’ layer represents practical citizenship that recognizes relational entanglements with others, performs ethical responsibilities, and actively constructs alternative future spaces. In conclusion, this study provides a theoretical foundation for reconstructing the meaning of geographical imagination in geography education. It highlights that geographical imagination is a key driver for students to grow into ‘geographical subjects’ who critically reflect on the world and create spaces of coexistence.