Lessons for the future : the missing dimension in education
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Lessons for the future : the missing dimension in education
(Futures and education series)
Routledge/Falmer, 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-139) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Drawing on the latest research in futures studies, this book provides new insights into ways of helping both students and teachers think more critically and creatively about their own future and that of wider society. It acknowledges the crucial role of education in helping young people understand the nature of local and global change and the social and environmental impacts such change will have on their future. Setting out a clear educational rationale for promoting global and futures perspective in education, it provides helpful and stimulating examples of futures-orientated classroom activities. It also includes fascinating research into children's views of the future.
Table of Contents
Prologue: Preparing for the Future 1. Remembering the Future: A Personal/Professional Journey 2. Reclaiming the Future: What Every Educator Needs to Know 3. A Lesson for the Future: Young People's Concerns for Tomorrow 4. A Geography for the Future: Some Classroom Possibilities 5. Towards Tomorrow: Strategies for Envisioning the Future 6. Retrieving the Dream: How Students Envision Their Preferable Futures 7. Stories of Hope: A Response to the Psychology of Despair 8. Always Coming Home: Identifying Educators' Desirable Futures 9. Living Lightly on the Earth: A Residential Fieldwork Experience 10. Teaching About Global Futures: The Need for Holistic Learning 11. Questioning the Millennium: Sharing Stories of the Past, Present, Future
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