by I’m pleased to say that Peter Bishop and I are about to submit the first draft of our second book together to Palgrave Macmillan Publishing: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education.
The University of Houston Futures Studies program has been teaching and preparing professional futurists for decades Now it is time to expand that mission to educators everywhere. We believe that it is possible to include futures thinking into every discipline at every level of education, particularly high schools, colleges, and professional schools. In fact, it is our vision that in the long run, teaching about the future is as common as teaching about the past. The past is where the record of human achievement and failure appear; the future is where people will live as time goes on. Should they not get equal time? Should not every high school and college student who takes a course in world history also take a course in world futures? Should they not learn to envision, plan and execute plans to create change toward a more preferable future? Of course they should. This book, we believe, will be a positive step in that direction. Andy Hines
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