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9780415129435

New Thinking for a New Millennium: The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies

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    9780415129435

  • ISBN10:

    0415129435

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1996-05-08
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

In this book, Richard Slaughter draws on the relatively new but rapidly developing field of futures studies to illustrate how our thinking must change in order to deal with the challenges presented by the new millennium. In doing so he brings together the latest work from some of the leading international names in futures thinking.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
vii(1)
Contributors viii(2)
Introduction x
Part I Foundations of futures studies 3(102)
1 What do we mean by futures studies?
3(23)
Wendell Bell
2 Futures studies and the human sciences: the case for normative scenarios
26(58)
James Ogilvy
3 50 key works: a beginner's guide to the futures literature
84(21)
Kjell Dahle
Part II Futures thinking and education 105(74)
4 Futures studies as applied knowledge
105(11)
James Dator
5 The Institute for Social Inventions, London
116(10)
Nicholas Albery
6 Education systems as agents of change: an overview of futures education
126(11)
Jane Page
7 Critical futures study as an educational strategy
137(18)
Richard A. Slaughter
8 Educating beyond violent futures in children's media
155(24)
francis P. Hutchinson
Part III Social learning for a new millennium 179(57)
9 Ways to develop the knowledge base of futures studies
179(6)
Allen Tough
10 Envisioning a sustainable society
185(13)
Lester W. Milbrath
11 Reconstructing our myths and mindsets for the new millennium
198(13)
John C. Hinchcliff
12 Social innovation and citizens' movements
211(25)
Hazel Henderson
Index 236

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