Richard Slaughter

The Foresight Principle

Cultural Recovery in the 21st Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Why do things always get harder before they get easier? Why is foresight useful? What are the real megatrends? What does foresight really cost? Who should support it? These and other questions form the backbone of this strongly argued and thoroughly referenced work from the highly experienced educational futurist Richard A. Slaughter of the Futures Study Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9780275952921
• ISBN-10: 0275952924
• Artikelnr.: 21081696

Autorenporträt

RICHARD A. SLAUGHTER is director of the Futures Study Centre in Melbourne, Australia. Until recently, he was Lecturer in Futures and Social Policy and convenor of the Foresight Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. His previous works include Futures Tools and Techniques (1987) and Recovering the Future (1989). He is also the coauthor, with Hedley Beare, of Education in the 21st Century (1993).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Hazel Henderson Preface Introduction Establishing the Context:
Looking Beyond the Industrial Worldview Looking Back Looking Around Looking
Forward Applying and Extending the Foresight Principle How Foresight is
Already Understood and Used How a Changing Worldview Can Help Our
Institutions Become More Far-Sighted Extending Foresight through Analysis,
Imagination, and Social Imaging Why We Need Institutions of Foresight
Cultural Recovery in the 21st Century Creating Positive Views of Futures
With Young People Cultural Reconstruction in the 'Post-Modern'
World--Aspects of Renewed Worldview Towards a Wise Culture Conclusion: The
Promise of the 21st Century Annotated Bibliography Index