Emergentist education and the opportunities of radical futurity

Susanna Barrineau; Laila Mendy; Anne-Kathrin Peters

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2022.103062

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Emergentist education and the opportunities of radical futurity

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Emergentist education and the opportunities of radical futurity

Susanna Barrineau, Laila Mendy and Anne-Kathrin Peters

Futures, Vol.144, pp.1-12

2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2022.103062

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emergentist

higher education

sustainability

futures

care

norms

Higher education has been criticised for its instrumental character, which constrains possibilities for meaningful change towards sustainability. Drawing on the concept of radical futurity, we develop a conception of education that we call "emergentist education". We integrate literature from futures studies, education for sustainable development, philosophy of education, and bring into dialogue experiences from three futures-facing educational contexts at a Swedish university. We identify three key areas to conceive of emergentist education and its value in practice: disciplinary and institutional norms, convening around anticipatory emotions, and deepening the paradox of sustainability as emergent through radical futurity. We apply a diffractive analysis through these key areas to demonstrate how a reorientation of education as emergentist might allow students and teachers to contest visions of futures. This work helps in approaching the liberation of education to allow young people to come together whole-heartedly around what matters to them.

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Title: Emergentist education and the opportunities of radical futurity
Authors: Susanna Barrineau (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
Laila Mendy (Author) - Uppsala University
Anne-Kathrin Peters (Author) - KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Publication details: Futures, Vol.144, pp.1-12
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
Date published: 2022
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2022.103062
ISSN: 1873-6378; 0016-3287
Organisation Unit: School of Law and Society
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99697098802621
Output Type: Journal article

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