Educational Futures

"Futures of Education" summarizes current tensions, debates, and the main issues developed within the UK, Europe, Australia, the USA, and Canada and actively engages with futures discourses by providing an overview of arguments about where education should be going. It focuses on neither prediction nor prescription; rather the goal is an analysis of the ways in which the notion of the future circulates in contemporary discourse. It also brings to the fore the notion of multiple educational futures within various societies and communities, thus raising the issue of choices and moving from determinism and criticism towards more substantiated visions and more meaningful dialogues about the future of education.

Ivana Milojevic

Introduction Part 1. Historical Futures Discourses in Education 1. Future, Time and Education: Contexts and connections 2. Using Time and the Future to Colonize and Educate the Other 3. Turn of the Spiral: Alternative histories Part 2. Destabilizing Dominant Narratives 4. The Colonization of the Future 5. Visions I: Globalisation 6. Visions II: Cyberia -the information age 7. Contextualizing Global Dreams and Nightmares Part 3. Searching for Social and Educational Alternatives 8. Visions III: Feminist alternatives 9. Visions IV: Indigenous alternatives 10. Visions V: Spiritual alternatives Part 4. Towards Educational Eutopias and Heterotopias 11. Postmodern Visions, Costs and Multi-temporalities 12. Epistemic Change and the Transformation of Education