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.
This handbook provides a sophisticated, scholarly overview of the most advanced thought regarding the idea of life after death. Its comprehensive coverage encompasses historical, religious, ...philosophical and scientific thinking. Starting with an overview of ancient thought on the topic, 'The Palgrave Handbook of the Afterlife' examines in detail the philosophical coherence of the main traditional notions of the nature of the afterlife including heaven, hell, purgatory and rebirth. In addition (and breaking with traditional conceptions), it also explores the most recent exciting advance - digital models. Later sections include analysis of various possible metaphysical accounts that might make sense of the afterlife (including substance dualism, emergent dualism and materialism) and the science of near death experiences, as well as the links between human psychology and our attitude to the afterlife.
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.
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.
The paper focuses on how futures are anticipated and acted on in relation to a set of events that are taken to threaten liberal democracies. Across different domains of life the future is now ...problematized as a disruption, a surprise. This problematization of the future as indeterminate or uncertain has been met with an extraordinary proliferation of anticipatory action. The paper argues that anticipatory action works through the assembling of: styles through which the form of the future is disclosed and related to; practices that render specific futures present; and logics through which anticipatory action is legitimized, guided and enacted.
Imagining the future is a fundamental human capacity that occupies a large part of people's waking time and impacts their affective well-being. In this meta-analysis, we examined the effect of (1) ...positive future imagination and (2) negative future imagination on affect, and (3) compared the affective responses between imagining the future and remembering the past; lastly, we (4) examined potential moderating variables in this regard. We identified 63 experimental studies (N = 6813) from different research areas and combined studies that applied the best possible self imagination task, future worry induction, and episodic future simulation, respectively. Findings yielded that imagining the future has a moderate to strong impact on affect, and it has a stronger influence on affect compared to remembering the past. Relevant moderator variables in each research area were also identified. We discuss the findings for the field of psychology in general and clinical psychology in particular. More elaborate research on personal future imagination seems crucial for the further advancement of clinical applications for mental health complaints. We conclude with recommendations for future research on the impact of future imagination on affective well-being.
•Instructed positive personal future imagination boosts positive affect.•Future worry increases negative affect equally in high-anxious and low-anxious individuals.•Imagining the future evokes stronger affect than remembering the past.•Magnitude of effects depends on how an imagination is applied.•Future research needs to focus more on clinical application of future imagination.
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.
