Advancing futures : futures studies in higher education /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Dator, James A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
Series:	Praeger studies on the 21st century.
Subjects:	Forecasting > Study and teaching (Higher) Twenty-first century > Forecasts > Study and teaching (Higher)

Table of Contents:

Introduction, Future lies behind-- thirty years of teaching futures studies / Jim Dator
Making people responsible : the possible, the probable, and the preferable / Wendell Bell
Sociologist's experience / Eleonora Barbieri Masini
Future as a sociocultural problem : a personal ethnohistory / Reed D. Riner
Past and future / W. Warren Wagar
Futures studies as an intellectual and applied discipline / Richard A. Slaughter
Pedagogy, culture, and futures studies / Sohail Inayatullah
Explaining the past and predicting the future / Peter T. Manicas
Social change and futures practice / Peter Bishop
Permanent development of futures research methodology / Erzsébet Nováky
Transformation of futures research in Hungary / Eva Hideg
Politics + science = futures studies? / Mika Mannermaa
Maximizing evolvability : teaching futures studies at the university level / Jan Huston
Future-oriented complexity and adaptive studies (FOCAS) / Kaoru Yamaguchi
Futures studies in Pakistan : the PFI / Ikram Azam
Generation of futures studies in Taiwan / Kuo-Hua Chen
Teaching futures-seeking policy process / Markku Sotarauta
Journey to the future in the United Kingdom / Graham H. May.
Global issues and futures for planners : the heuristic model / Sam Cole
Planet eaters or star makers? / Christopher Burr Jones
Challenge of teaching futures studies / Jordi Serra del Pino
Giving images a chance : images of the future as a tool for sociology / Anita Rubin
Futures praxis : consulting and teaching futures studies through the World Wide Web / Paul Wildman
Postmodern education : a futures perspective / David Hicks
Visionary futures : guided cognitive imagery in teaching and learning about the future / Oliver W. Markley
Producing a better world : theory, education, and consulting / Ian Lowe
Cocreating a futures studies course with unionists / Arthur B. Shostak
Diagnosing global change : educating the economic strategist / Ernest Sternberg
Prophets of a high-tech age : futures studies through the eyes of a futurist / William E. Halal.