The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility.Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to ...musicians. Edited, curated and introduced by bestselling author Val McDermid and geographer Jo Sharp, it is a collection of ideas, dreams and ambitions, aiming to inspire change, hope and imagination. Featuring:ALI SMITH, PHILL JUPITUS, A.L. KENNEDY, ALAN CUMMING, KERRY HUDSON, GREG HEMPHILL, CAROL ANN DUFFY, CHRIS BROOKMYRE, ALISON WATT, ALASDAIR GRAY, LEILA ABOULELA, IAN RANKIN, SELINA HALES, SANJEEV KOHLI, JACKIE KAY, DAMIAN BARR, ELAINE C. SMITH, ABIR MUKHERJEE, ANNE GLOVER, ALAN BISSETT, LOUISE WELSH, JO CLIFFORD, RICKY ROSS, TRISHNA SINGH, CAMERON McNEISH, ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH, CARLA JENKINS, DON PATERSON, AND MANY MORE . . .
Developing futures literacy in the classroom Bol, Erica; de Wolf, Martin
Futures : the journal of policy, planning and futures studies,
February 2023, 2023-02-00, Volume:
146
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
This study examines the impact of futures thinking classes on students’ futures literacy. Our qualitative and quantitative analyses indicate higher levels of futures literacy after the students took ...the futures thinking classes. We discuss the futures thinking classes, including the approach and pedagogical method used, and showcase some example activities. We conclude with advice for schools interested in implementing futures thinking classes to enhance their students’ futures literacy.
•We show futures thinking classes lead to improved futures literacy. Both our qualitative and quantitative analysis show increased future consciousness, our measure of futures literacy.•We discuss a holistic approach to futures thinking classes that integrates education about the future, education of the future and education for the future.•The futures thinking classes have a ripple effect. Not only the futures literacy of our students increased but they also impacted their colleagues and their own students.•We detail future skills and the pedagogic approach to futures thinking classes.•We provide advice for other schools that are interested in implementing futures thinking classes to enhance their students’ futures literacy.
The five dimensions of Futures Consciousness Ahvenharju, Sanna; Minkkinen, Matti; Lalot, Fanny
Futures : the journal of policy, planning and futures studies,
December 2018, 2018-12-00, 20181201, Volume:
104
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
•There is no commonly used, operational definition of future consciousness that could be used in empirical futures research.•Future consciousness overlaps with many other related concepts, such as ...future orientation and anticipation.•Our review and analysis of these concepts identify five different dimensions that are central to future consciousness.•The resulting model is called the Five Dimensions of Futures Consciousness.•The dimensions are time perspective, agency beliefs, openness to alternatives, systems perception and concern for others.
Futures research studies and builds images of possible, probable and preferable futures and paths to such futures. Underlying this effort is human consciousness of futures that is present in everyday anticipatory behaviour and explicit foresight. Futures researchers often aim to increase this consciousness in order to enable decision-making towards more desirable futures. Despite the importance of the concept of Futures Consciousness, and the proliferation of related concepts, there is no commonly used definition or operationalization that would permit empirical research. This article presents a conceptual model of Futures Consciousness that is based on an integrated review and analysis of the descriptions of future consciousness and its related concepts in literature as well as in the theoretical underpinnings of futures research. The model contains five dimensions: 1) Time perspective, 2) Agency beliefs, 3) Openness to alternatives, 4) Systems perception and 5) Concern for others. The model provides the basis for further conceptual development and the operationalization of Futures Consciousness, which would enable its use in empirical research.
The digital age is burning out our most precious resources and the future of the past is at stake. In After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory, Trevor Owens warns that our institutions of ...cultural memory—libraries, archives, museums, humanities departments, research institutes, and more—have been “disrupted,” and largely not for the better. He calls for memory workers and memory institutions to take back control of envisioning the future of memory from management consultants and tech sector evangelists. After Disruption posits that we are no longer planning for a digital future, but instead living in a digital present. In this context, Owens asks how we plan for and develop a more just, sustainable, and healthy future for cultural memory. The first half of the book draws on critical scholarship on the history of technology and business to document and expose the sources of tech startup ideologies and their pernicious results, revealing that we need powerful and compelling counter frameworks and values to replace these ideologies. The second half of the book makes the case for the centrality of maintenance, care, and repair as interrelated frameworks to build a better future in which libraries, archives, and museums can thrive as sites of belonging and connection through collections.
Experimental research on sequential moral behavior (SMB) has found that engaging in an initial moral (or immoral) behavior can sometimes lead to moral balancing (i.e., switching between positive and ...negative behavior) and sometimes to moral consistency (i.e., maintaining a consistent pattern of positive or negative behavior). In two meta-analyses, we present the first comprehensive syntheses of SMB studies and test moderators to identify the conditions under which moral balancing and moral consistency are most likely to occur. Meta-Analysis 1 (k = 217 effect sizes, N = 31,242) revealed that engaging in an initial positive behavior only reliably resulted in moral licensing (i.e., balancing) in studies that measured engagement in negative target behaviors (Hedges' g = 0.25, 95% CI 0.16, 0.44) and only resulted in positive consistency in foot-in-the-door studies using prosocial requests (Hedges' g = −0.44, 95% CI −0.59, −0.29). Meta-Analysis 2 (k = 132 effect sizes, N = 14,443) revealed that engaging in an initial negative behavior only reliably resulted in moral compensation (i.e., balancing) in studies that measured engagement in positive target behaviors (Hedges' g = 0.27, 95% CI 0.18, 0.37). We found no evidence for reliable negative consistency effects in any conditions. These results cannot be readily explained by current theories of SMB effects, and so further research is needed to better understand the mechanisms that drive moral balancing and consistency under the conditions observed.
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Previous research suggests the likelihood of engaging in a moral (or immoral) behavior may be influenced by whether a person has previously engaged in another moral action. Our analyses have identified different circumstances under which prior moral (or immoral) behavior leads to a greater likelihood of subsequent positive, and negative, behavior. These results may inform the design of future research that aims to better understand the mechanisms underlying sequential moral behavior effects. Understanding the dynamics of sequential moral behavior may also inform practical strategies to increase engagement in positive behavior, such as engagement with charitable causes.
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The “end of history” illusion in adults (Quoidbach et al., 2013) is an asymmetrical pattern in which people accept that they've changed in the past but don't believe they will change in the future. ...We explore here whether the same psychological forces that cause the illusion in adults exist in the minds of children. Two studies with 4- to 11-year-olds (N = 256) suggest that they do, even in a within-subject design where the same child is asked questions about the past and the future. A third study (N = 83) finds that this illusion does not persist when children are asked about other people. These studies suggest that even young children believe that although they used to be different in the past, from this point on, they will remain forever young.
Treatise on Future Pharmacy Okuda, Jun
The Japanese Journal for the Histrory of Pharmacy,
2023/06/30, Volume:
58, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Future pharmacy is defined as pharmacy that evolves successively after the present pharmacy. It alsoincludes past, modern, and present pharmacy.The future pharmacists are also defined as pharmacists ...who are sympathetic in mind and are deeplyversed in dispensing and medication for patients, cope well with society, contribute to preventive pharmacyfor the increasing disasters, and consider countermeasures against the increasing stimulant drugs that areimported illegally.
Reducing the incidence and prevalence of standard modifiable cardiovascular risk factors (SMuRFs) is critical to tackling the global burden of coronary artery disease (CAD). However, a substantial ...number of individuals develop coronary atherosclerosis despite no SMuRFs. SMuRFless patients presenting with myocardial infarction have been observed to have an unexpected higher early mortality compared to their counterparts with at least 1 SMuRF. Evidence for optimal management of these patients is lacking. We assembled an international, multidisciplinary team to develop an evidence-based clinical pathway for SMuRFless CAD patients. A modified Delphi method was applied. The resulting pathway confirms underlying atherosclerosis and true SMuRFless status, ensures evidence-based secondary prevention, and considers additional tests and interventions for less typical contributors. This dedicated pathway for a previously overlooked CAD population, with an accompanying registry, aims to improve outcomes through enhanced adherence to evidence-based secondary prevention and additional diagnosis of modifiable risk factors observed.
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Patients with coronary atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction lacking modifiable risk factors face a high rate of early mortality.
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An evidence-based pathway has been introduced to guide the management of such patients.
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An international multicenter registry may provide insights leading to improved clinical outcomes.
A look at how solar energy will help supply the energy needed by an estimated 9.4 billion people by 2050 is presented. Personalized solar energy is the best way to meet the increasing need for energy.
Questions about the future, and futurelessness, have attracted wide-ranging attention in recent years. Our article explores what Sociology offers. We reflect on the apparent contradiction that the ...future was bracketed off from the discipline in its early history, yet also offers rich theoretical, methodological and empirical resources for futures research. We demonstrate this through an analysis of the contributions to this Special Issue, each of which draws on explicitly Sociological theories and methods to consider futures in a range of fields. Finally, we explore further developments necessary for a Sociology of the Future. We argue that Sociology can and should be more directly involved in claiming what futures might be, should be and in materialising these claims. This means moving beyond Sociology – as a distinct set of resources – towards expansive engagement with other future-making actors. This may challenge and change Sociology but may also be key to its future.
