Futures education
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Futures education
(World yearbook of education, 1998)
Kogan Page, 1998
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes references (p. 284-286) & index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
One of the central roles of education is to prepare students for the future and yet its study is often a neglected issue. This work focuses on the futures field as an educational resource using case studies from around the world, and on the nature of education for sustainability.
Table of Contents
Introduction Section I: Foundations of Futures Education1. A futurist reflects 2. Understanding the futures field 3. The changing nature of global change 4. The knowledge base of futures studies 5. Listening to non-western perspectives 6. The needs of future generations 7. Learning from feminist futures Section II: The Practice of Futures Education 8. Futures in early childhood education 9. Technology-based learning in US elementary schools 10. Young people's hopes and fears for the future 11. Teachers and postgraduate futures education 12. Futures studies at the University of Houston-Clear Lake 13. Futures studies via the World Wide Web 14. An MA in Foresight and Futures Studies 15. Student responses to learning about futures 16. Identifying sources of hope in postmodern times Section III: Educating for a Sustainable Future 17. The need to envision sustainable futures 18. Environmental education for a new century 19. An MSc in Environmental and Development Education 20. The WWF UK Reaching Out programme
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