[PDF] Alternative Futures For Education And Learning eBook

Author : Marsha Lynne Rhea
Publisher : R & L Education
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN :

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"This book introduces future thinking and methodologies to a learning environment; imparts processes that can transform the learning experience for learners of all ages; suggests ways in which learning can be practically or profoundly transformed; and offers resources and an extensive bibliography for further information. This book will be of interest to school leaders, administrators, teachers, and schools of education."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Keri Facer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 113672821X

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In the twenty-first century, educators around the world are being told that they need to transform education systems to adapt young people for the challenges of a global digital knowledge economy. Too rarely, however, do we ask whether this future vision is robust, achievable or even desirable, whether alternative futures might be in development, and what other possible futures might demand of education. Drawing on ten years of research into educational innovation and socio-technical change, working with educators, researchers, digital industries, students and policy-makers, this book questions taken-for-granted assumptions about the future of education. Arguing that we have been working with too narrow a vision of the future, Keri Facer makes a case for recognizing the challenges that the next two decades may bring, including: the emergence of new relationships between humans and technology the opportunities and challenges of aging populations the development of new forms of knowledge and democracy the challenges of climate warming and environmental disruption the potential for radical economic and social inequalities. This book describes the potential for these developments to impact critical aspects of education – including adult-child relationships, social justice, curriculum design, community relationships and learning ecologies. Packed with examples from around the world and utilising vital research undertaken by the author while Research Director at the UK’s Futurelab, the book helps to bring into focus the risks and opportunities for schools, students and societies over the coming two decades. It makes a powerful case for rethinking the relationship between education and social and technological change, and presents a set of key strategies for creating schools better able to meet the emerging needs of their students and communities. An important contribution to the debates surrounding educational futures, this book is compelling reading for all of those, including educators, researchers, policy-makers and students, who are asking the question 'how can education help us to build desirable futures for everyone in the context of social and technological change?'

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9087905130

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“We desperately need the dynamic revolution in education that this book offers us, reflecting the new ways of thinking and being on this planet that will permit us to live in peace as a global family even through massive climate changes. Read it and put these ideas into practice as quickly as possible in any ways you can!” —Elisabet Sahtouris, Evolutionary biologist and futurist, author of EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution

Author : Yusef Waghid
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 2021-05-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 3030754294

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This book analyses the narratives of four academics who consider themselves post-structuralist. Grounded in the work of major thinkers in post-structuralism, these narratives reflect on higher education as a community of scholars without community. The authors highlight what specifically motivates their pedagogical affirmations and orientations, analyse why they are concerned with social justice education, and what they envisage the alternative futures of higher education to be – that is, futures in which discrimination, oppression, violence and inequality are waning or have been eradicated. Through their own narratives, the authors tackle the educational matter of poststructuralist human encounters and expand upon the notion of social justice education. In doing so, they argue for higher education on the African continent as an alternative discourse that can be responsive to political, societal and environmental dystopias.