Abstract
In 'Educational Futures' the author summarizes current tensions and debates on the educational agenda across the 'Western' world, and provides an overview of the debate over where education should be heading. Using a broad historical analysis, it investigates ideas and visions about the future that are increasingly evoked to support arguments about the imminent demize of the dominant modern educational model. Focusing neither on prediction nor prescription, this text suggests the goal is an analysis of the ways in which the notion of the future circulates in contemporary discourse. Five specific discourses are explored: * globalization * new information and communications technologies * feminist * indigenous *spiritual. The book demonstrates the connections between particular approaches to time, visions of the future, and educational visions and practices. The author asserts that every approach to educational change is inherently based on an underlying image of the future.