| Description |
xxvi, 421 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The psychology of the future / by Alvin Toffler. -- The future-focused role-image / by Benjamin D. Singer. -- Why women see the future differently from men / by Pauline B. Bart. -- The black child's image of the future / by Alvin F. Poussaint. -- Social science : the future as a missing variable / by Wendell Bell. -- Tomorrow's curriculum today / by Michael A. McDanield. -- Humanism and futurism : enemies or allies? / by Irving H. Buchen. -- The humanities face tomorrow / by Nell Eurich. -- Educating scientists for tomorrow / by John Wren-Lewis. -- Educational futurism : perspective or discipline? / by Harold J. Strudler. -- Educating the youngest for tomorrow / by Harold G. Shane and June Grant Shane. -- Teaching the twenty-first century in a twentieth-century high school / by Priscilla P. Griffith. -- Futuristics, games, and educational change / by Billy Rojas. -- Science fiction as an educational tool / by Dennis Livingston. -- Values and the futures movement in education / by Howard Kirschenbaum and Sidney B. Simon. -- Futurism and the reform of higher education / by Philip Werdell. -- Status report : sample syllabi and directory of futures studies / by Billy Rojas and H. Wentworth Eldredge |
| Summary |
Analyzes the way the future is dealt with in college and high school classrooms and calls for drastic changes in the way educators prepare individuals for life in the future |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 396-399 |
| Subject |
Civilization, Modern -- 1950-
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Education -- United States -- 1965-
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Education -- United States.
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Forecasting.
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Education.
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Forecasting.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330
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United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Author |
Toffler, Alvin.
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| LC no. |
73012914 |
| ISBN |
0394483138 |
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0394719808 (paperback) |
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