Ciba Foundation Symposium 36 - The Future as an Academic Discipline

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Ciba Foundation Symposium 36 - The Future as an Academic Discipline

Editor(s): G. E. W. Wolstenholme, Maeve O'Connor

Published Online: 30 MAY 2008

Print ISBN: 9789021940403

Online ISBN: 9780470720189

DOI: 10.1002/9780470720189

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Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–viii)

    2. Chapter 1

      Introduction (pages 1–4)

      C. H. Waddington

    3. Chapter 2

      The Mark III Survey of University-Level Futures Courses (pages 5–18)

      H. Wentworth Eldredge

    4. Chapter 3

      A University Experiment in Sweden (pages 19–34)

      Karl-Erik Eriksson and Anders Lundberg

    5. Chapter 4

      The Future as a Discipline and the Future of the Disciplines (pages 35–51)

      Alexander King

    6. Chapter 5

      A Dragon or a Pussy Cat? Two Views of Human Knowledge (pages 53–71)

      F. R. Jevons

    7. Chapter 6

      Social Decision Prerequisite to Educational Change, 1975–1985 (pages 73–87)

      Harold G. Shane

    8. Chapter 7

      From Academic Hothouse to Professional Dugout: A Mean Free Path (pages 89–106)

      John M. Francis

    9. Chapter 8

      Sclerotic Structures and the Future of Academic Organization (pages 107–119)

      J. N. Black

    10. Chapter 9

      Eclectics: Elements of a Transdisciplinary Methodology for Futures Studies (pages 121–143)

      Kimon Valaskakis

    11. Chapter 10

      Some Fundamental Philosophical, Psychological and Intellectual Assumptions of Futures Studies (pages 145–165)

      Yehezkel Dror

    12. Chapter 11

      Universities as Nerve Centres of Society (pages 167–189)

      John Platt

    13. Chapter 12

      Patterns of Education for the Future (pages 191–216)

      Sir Walter Perry

    14. Chapter 13

      Concluding Remarks (pages 217–220)

      C. H. Waddington

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      Biographies of the Participants (pages 221–224)

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      Index of Contributors (page 225)

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      Subject Index (pages 227–232)

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