ABSTRACT
To return to Hazel Henderson’s metaphor about ‘paradigms’ and ‘paradigms in progress’, perhaps what we need as teachers, parents and concerned citizens is a different pair of spectacles which can reveal a new view of our world and of things to come. This chapter looks at what this difference might mean. It begins to explore a knowledge-base for futures teaching. In probing beneath the surface of the follies and fallacies of mechanistic futurological thinking, it discovers some signs of hope.
