David Hicks, David Hicks

Lessons for the Future (eBook, ePUB)

The Missing Dimension in Education

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134474493
• Artikelnr.: 38254651

Autorenporträt

David Hicks is Professor in the School of Education at Bath Spa University College. He has published widely in the fields of geographical education, citizenship education, futures education and global education.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Preparing for the Future 1. Remembering the Future: A
Personal/Professional Journey 2. Reclaiming the Future: What Every Educator
Needs to Know 3. A Lesson for the Future: Young People's Concerns for
Tomorrow 4. A Geography for the Future: Some Classroom Possibilities 5.
Towards Tomorrow: Strategies for Envisioning the Future 6. Retrieving the
Dream: How Students Envision Their Preferable Futures 7. Stories of Hope: A
Response to the Psychology of Despair 8. Always Coming Home: Identifying
Educators' Desirable Futures 9. Living Lightly on the Earth: A Residential
Fieldwork Experience 10. Teaching About Global Futures: The Need for
Holistic Learning 11. Questioning the Millennium: Sharing Stories of the
Past, Present, Future