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Advancing Futures Futures Studies in Higher Education
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James A. Dator
Book Code: B7632
ISBN: 0-275-97632-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97632-3
416 pages, figures, tables
Praeger Paperback
Publication: 4/30/2002
List Price: $36.95 (UK Sterling Price: £21.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • The most extensive collection of essays on teaching futures studies ever assembled.
    —Future Survey     June 2002
  • ...Advancing Futures is a more than welcome addition to the debate over the position of futures studies in the academy.
    —The Futurist     November-December 2002
Description: What is Futures Studies, what are the theories and methods underlying the field? What are its basic concepts and metaphors, and how is it related to other academic fields? These are the core questions addressed in this book by a comprehensive assembly of distinguished scholars. They explore the enigma of why Futures Studies, despite its growing maturity as an intellectual endeavor, after more than three decades of groundbreaking work, still struggles for institutional acceptance. Together these contributors paint a picture of Futures Studies not so much a product of the stale intellectual heritage of the 20th century, but as a vibrant harbinger of intellectual perspectives sure to gain wider currency in the 21st. Drawing on their backgrounds in fields as diverse as political science, history, sociology, anthropology, economics, psychology, management, and human ecology, this international line-up of contributors includes world systems theorist Immanuel Wallerstein, philosopher Peter Manicas, management professor Bill Halal, and industrial sociologist Arthur Shostak.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by Jim Dator
  • Overviews and Histories
  • Making People Responsible by Wendell Bell
  • A Sociologist's Experience by Eleonora Barbieri Masini
  • The Future as a Sociocultural Problem by Reed D. Riner
  • Past and Future by W. Warren Wager
  • Uncertainty and Creativity by Immanuel Wallerstein
  • Futures Studies as a Discipline by Richard A. Slaughter
  • Explaining and Defining
  • Pedagogy, Culture, and Futures Studies by Sohail Inayatullah
  • Explaining the Past and Predicting the Future by Peter T. Manicas
  • Social Change and Futures Practice by Peter Bishop
  • Permanent Development of Futures Research Methodology by Erzebet Novaky
  • The Transformation of Futures Research in Hungary by Eva Hideg
  • Politics + Science = Futures Studies? by Mika Mannermaa
  • Teaching Futures Studies at the University Level by Jan Huston
  • Future-Oriented Complexity and Adaptive Studies by Kaoru Yamaguchi
  • Courses and Methods
  • Futures Studies in Pakistan: The PFI by Ikram Azam
  • A Generation of Futures Studies in Taiwan by Kuo-Hua Chen
  • Teaching Futures-Seeking Policy in Finland by Markku Sotarauta
  • A Journey to the Future in the UK by Graham H. May
  • Global Issues and Futures for Planners by Sam Cole
  • Planet Eaters or Star Makers? by Christopher Burr Jones
  • The Challenge of Teaching Futures Studies by Jordi Serra del Pino
  • Giving Images a Chance by Anita Rubin
  • Consulting and Teaching Through the World Wide Web by Paul Wildman
  • Postmodern Education: A Futures Perspective by David Hicks
  • Visionary Futures by Oliver W. Markley
  • Concerns and Issues
  • Producing a Better World by Ian Lowe
  • Co-Creating a Futures Studies Course with Unionists by Arthur Shostak
  • Educating the Economic Strategist by Ernest Sternberg
  • Prophets of a High-Tech Age by William E. Halal
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2001051374
LCC Class: CB158
Dewey Class: 303
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