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The World Future Society invites its members and other interested persons to submit papers
on ideas and innovations for improving education, including strategies for K-12, higher
education, vocational or professional training, and lifelong learning and life
enhancement.
Proposals deemed of general interest will be posted here, and readers
are invited to peruse them and offer their comments, questions, critiques, or
encouragement.
To submit proposals: Please e-mail the full text, along
with an abstract of no more than 50 words, to the
editors.
Only electronic submissions with an abstract will be considered.
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Essentials of a Futures-Oriented Public
Safety Leadership Development Course
By Gene Stephens
Many consider the ideal leader to be the person with the
right qualities for the situation at hand. In 1944 Winston Churchill’s
bulldog tenacity and ability to stay the course made him an ideal prime
minister for wartime Great Britain; a couple of years later he was no
longer considered the right leader for a nation tired of war and
sacrifice and ready to kick up its heels and enjoy its victory.
Sustainable Medical Schools
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By Gary S. Kodel
Twin challenges for medical education are to prepare medical
students to improve the quality of life for their patients and develop
meaningful lifestyles for themselves. The author reviews literature from
several disciplines to show that much of human suffering is related to
the unique lifestyle and social organization of our civilization.
Sparta and Athens
By Thierry Groussin and Manfred Mack
We want to put forward the hypothesis that the type of engineering that has now to be
developed is not only technological, chemical or mechanical, but primarily social and
psychological.
We have chosen to present an experience which significantly
exemplifies such a dynamic. In authors’ opinion, this experience is not a sheer
pedagogical innovation: it is a social innovation, a kind of model for the future, a
process for creating a new economy and a new society.
Community Learning Works Better for Kids Than Schooling
By Gary S. Kodel
This article by a family physician describes how community learning, in contrast to
schooling, is an effective and efficient educational structure for humans because it works
with our evolved nature of learning which involves play—the process of continuously
exploring our community to find those people from whom we want to learn. The harmful
consequences of schooling and its role within the larger self-destructive aspects of our
economy are discussed along with critiques of current attempts to integrate learning
within our communities.
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