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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818862103321

Titolo

The future as an academic discipline

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North-Holland

New York, : American Elsevier, 1975

ISBN

1-280-78349-4

9786613693884

0-470-72018-2

0-470-71786-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Ciba Foundation Symposium (new series) ; ; 36

Disciplina

907

Soggetti

Forecasting

Universities and colleges - Curricula

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Symposium on the Future as an Academic Discipline held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 6-8 February 1975"--Participants page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

The Future as an Academic Discipline; Contents; Introduction; The Mark III survey of university-level futures courses; Discussion; A university experiment in Sweden; Discussion; The future as a discipline and the future of the disciplines; Discussion; A dragon or a pussy cat? Two views of human knowledge; Discussion; Social decisions prerequisite to educational change 1975-1985; Discussion; From academic hothouse to professional dugout: a mean free path; Discussion; Sclerotic structures and the future of academic organization; Discussion Eclectics: elements of a transdisciplinary methodology for futures studies Discussion; Some fundamental philosophical, psychological and intellectual assumptions of futures studies; Discussion; Universities as nerve centres of society; Discussion; Patterns of education for the future; Discussion; General Discussion; Concluding remarks; Biographies of the participants; Index of contributors; Subject index