ABSTRACT
There are many people who have developed ideas and strategies about the direction education should be taking now and into the future. Thus, a starting point in the search for a new narrative is a review of the ways in which the educational literature analyses what education should look like in the future. Although considerations about the future are often present more by implication than by design in the educational literature, some of the major emphases can be organised into four categories: Revert, Reboot, Reframe, and Replace. The title of each category seeks to encapsulate a different philosophy about, and approach to, education in the future: revert, reboot, reframe and replace—the four Rs. The reframing approach starts with the changing world into which young people are moving, especially related to global-isation, technological change and new economies, and examines the implications for schooling.
