Review
Book Review: Educational Futures: Dominant and Contesting Visions. I. Milojevic. Routledge, London and New York, xiv+298 pp., £75.00
Futures, Vol.39(7), pp.902-905
2007
Abstract
In Educational Futures: Dominant and Contesting Visions educational futurist Ivana Milojevic has written a compelling and readable volume. I shall provide a brief description of the contents, while giving an overall evaluation of the volume. I focus on its most salient points, particularly in highlighting some of the strengths and typical problems with critical futures. The problem I shall return to later is Milojevic's representation of East and West.
The title already indicates that this is a critical futures text in which ideas and images about ‘possible, probable and preferred futures’ (p. 2) are examined. It ‘provides an overview and detailed analysis of arguments about where education, particularly state-based education systems, is and should be going’ (p. 4). Yet, as Milojevic states, it is neither about prediction nor prescription. Instead, she sets out to destabilise the dominant narratives and offer alternative perspectives from other largely silenced discourses.
Details
- Title
- Book Review: Educational Futures: Dominant and Contesting Visions. I. Milojevic. Routledge, London and New York, xiv+298 pp., £75.00
- Authors
- Marcus Anthony (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, QLD Australia
- Publication details
- Futures, Vol.39(7), pp.902-905
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.futures.2006.12.006
- ISSN
- 1873-6378
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99656595102621
- Output Type
- Review
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