Models of Futures Education for the 21st Century
Fabienne Goux Baudiment is founder of Progective Consulting, past president of the World Futures Studies Federation, and vice president of FUTUREtakes, Paris, France
Linda Groff is a professor, California State University, Dominguez Hills, and director, Global Options and Evolutionary Futures Consulting, Playa del Rey, California, USA
Kazuo Mizuta is an emeritus professor, Kyoto Sangyo University, vice president, Japan Future Research Center, Kyoto, Japan
Verne Wheelwright is founder and president of Personal Futures Network and author of It’s Your Future… Make it a Good One! Harlingen, Texas, USA
Participating online:
Jeanne Belisle Lombardo is co-director, Center for Future Consciousness, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Tom Lombardo is a professor and director, Center for Future Consciousness, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
The future of education is education about the future! Futures education needs to bring in cutting-edge knowledge and technologies impacting our human and planetary futures. Appropriate technologies need to be integrated with a solid futures studies background and forward-thinking educational principles and practices.
The panel will include international faculty from different countries who are participating in a new MA program on Innovation and Foresight, organized by Fabienne Goux Baudiment, at the Universite d’Angers in France. Fabienne will give an overview on the goals and structure of this MA program and the challenges in getting this MA approved, followed by various futures faculty sharing background about the courses they will each be teaching, in terms of content and various futures methodologies and teaching tools being used.
Highlights
Highlights: Participants will leave this session with an understanding of:
• What is involved in creating a new MA program in Innovation and Foresight involving futures faculty from a number of different countries around the world.
• What futures content, methodologies, and teaching tools are used.
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