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Advancing futures : futures studies in higher education
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Advancing futures : futures studies in higher education

Author: James Allen Dator
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
Series: Praeger studies on the 21st century
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James Allen Dator
ISBN: 0275969452 9780275969455 0275976327 9780275976323
OCLC Number: 48092218
Description: vii, 409 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction, Future lies behind-- thirty years of teaching futures studies / Jim Dator -- Making people responsible : the possible, the probable, and the preferable / Wendell Bell -- Sociologist's experience / Eleonora Barbieri Masini -- Future as a sociocultural problem : a personal ethnohistory / Reed D. Riner -- Past and future / W. Warren Wagar -- Futures studies as an intellectual and applied discipline / Richard A. Slaughter -- Pedagogy, culture, and futures studies / Sohail Inayatullah -- Explaining the past and predicting the future / Peter T. Manicas -- Social change and futures practice / Peter Bishop -- Permanent development of futures research methodology / Erzsébet Nováky -- Transformation of futures research in Hungary / Eva Hideg -- Politics + science = futures studies? / Mika Mannermaa -- Maximizing evolvability : teaching futures studies at the university level / Jan Huston -- Future-oriented complexity and adaptive studies (FOCAS) / Kaoru Yamaguchi -- Futures studies in Pakistan : the PFI / Ikram Azam -- Generation of futures studies in Taiwan / Kuo-Hua Chen -- Teaching futures-seeking policy process / Markku Sotarauta -- Journey to the future in the United Kingdom / Graham H. May. Global issues and futures for planners : the heuristic model / Sam Cole -- Planet eaters or star makers? / Christopher Burr Jones -- Challenge of teaching futures studies / Jordi Serra del Pino -- Giving images a chance : images of the future as a tool for sociology / Anita Rubin -- Futures praxis : consulting and teaching futures studies through the World Wide Web / Paul Wildman -- Postmodern education : a futures perspective / David Hicks -- Visionary futures : guided cognitive imagery in teaching and learning about the future / Oliver W. Markley -- Producing a better world : theory, education, and consulting / Ian Lowe -- Cocreating a futures studies course with unionists / Arthur B. Shostak -- Diagnosing global change : educating the economic strategist / Ernest Sternberg -- Prophets of a high-tech age : futures studies through the eyes of a futurist / William E. Halal.
Series Title: Praeger studies on the 21st century
Responsibility: edited by James A. Dator.

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