Seminar 3: Methods and tools for educational futures
10 June 2010, by Richard
The third seminar in the series will be held on July 5th 2010 at
the Learning Sciences Research Institute, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK (directions).
This seminar will examine the tools, methods and techniques commonly used to address the future, and explore the ways in which these might specifically support futures inquiry within education. How might education researchers best respond to the social and theoretical perspectives that underpin these techniques? To what extent is it possible to develop and extend these tools to generate informed analysis of possible and alternative socio-technical and educational futures? What other domains and perspectives might be usefully drawn upon in looking for ways to recognise and manage the personal, psychological and emotional challenges that accompany radical social and individual change?
To register for this seminar please contact Barbara Ashcroft. The programme for the day is as follows:
| 10.00 | Arrival and coffee |
| 10.30 | Welcome from Mike Sharples |
| 10.40 | Integral futures for education: theory and methods Richard Slaughter, Director, Foresight International |
| 11.40 | Break |
| 12.00 | The Future Technology Workshop method Giasemi Vavoula, University of Leicester |
| 12.45 | Lunch |
| 13.30 | A survey of methods for educational futures research Richard Sandford, Futurelab |
| 14.15 | Plenary session: New perspectives and methods for educational futures research What systemic changes are needed for a futures literate education system? How can these changes be realized in practice? What are the obstacles to such changes? What methods, tools and resources are required? |
| 16.00 | Towards an Educational Futures Manifesto |
| 16.30 | Close |
The ESRC funded ‘Educational Futures Seminar Series’ is run jointly by the Education and Social Research Institute, MMU; Graduate School of Education, Exeter University; London Knowledge Lab; LSRI, Nottingham University; NIACE; Futurelab.
