Description |
vii, 409 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Series |
Praeger studies on the 21st century, 1070-1850 |
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Praeger studies on the 21st century.
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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 |
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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 |
Summary |
What is Futures Studies? What are the theories and methods underlying the field? What are its basic concepts, and how is it related to other academic fields? Why does Futures Studies still struggle for institutional acceptance? These are the questions addressed in this work |
Analysis |
Education |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Forecasting -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Twenty-first century -- Forecasts -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Author |
Dator, James A.
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LC no. |
2001051374 |
ISBN |
0275969452 |
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0275976327 paperback |
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