ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |10 pages

Remembering the future

A personal/professional journey

chapter |15 pages

Reclaiming the future

What every educator needs to know

chapter |14 pages

A lesson for the future

Young people's concerns for tomorrow

chapter |13 pages

A geography for the future

Some classroom activities

chapter |7 pages

Towards tomorrow

Strategies for envisioning the future

chapter |8 pages

Retrieving the dream

How students envision their preferable futures

chapter |10 pages

Stories of hope

A response to the psychology of despair

chapter |12 pages

Always coming home

Identifying educators' desirable futures

chapter |8 pages

Living lightly on the earth

A residential fieldwork experience

chapter |11 pages

Teaching about global issues

The need for holistic learning

chapter |13 pages

Questioning the century

Shared stories of past, present and future

chapter |9 pages

Epilogue

Some lessons for the future