Previous Works
Special issue of Foresight, Vol 11, No 5, 2009
Editorial
Richard A Slaughter
The notion that the State of Play in the Futures Field (SoPiFF) was a topic worth considering emerged from a conversation with Sesh Velamoor, Director of the Seattle-based Foundation for the Future (FFF), at a 2006 conference at Tamkang University in Taiwan. The Foundation itself was established by philanthropist...
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Special issue of Futures Vol 40 No 2, March 2008
Special Issue Wins Award from The Association of Professional Futurists for One of the Top Three ‘Most Important Futures Works’ of 2008
This special issue highlights the spread of ideas around Integral Philosophy popularized by Ken Wilber and introduced into foresight by Richard Slaughter in his tenure with the Australian...
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AFI Monograph Series
2003
1. Foresight in Everyday Life - Peter Hayward
The ability to use foresight in order to make wise or prudential choices is one of the most powerful capabilities of individuals. Theories of how this capability, however, arises in individuals appear to have been largely ignored. The monograph contributes to our understanding of the human capacities involved in...
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Beyond the Mundane
This is the collective title of a series of presentations given at Tamkang University, Taiwan, as part of a ‘visiting chair’ program in 2006. Besides a Preface and Introduction, the booklet contains three papers.
1. Beyond the mundane – towards post-conventional futures practice.
2. Introduction to the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies.
3. Taking...
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Foreword to Futures Beyond Dystopia – Creating Social Foresight
Ken Wilber
Ah, to see the future, yes? Omen readers, entrail interpreters, soothsayers, psychics and scientists, all want a glimpse of tomorrow. Well, so do I, which is to say, we are all human.
One of the great difficulties with Futures Studies is that it is the future of human beings we are particularly interested in...
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Gone Today Here Tomorrow - Millennium Previews
Introduction
Richard A. Slaughter (Editor)
The year 2000 has long been seen as a milestone in Western history and consciousness, a divide imposed by the Gregorian calendar that heralds the end of one era and the beginning of another. No matter that other cultures and civilisations have different calendars and account for the passage time in...
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Futures for the Third Millennium: Enabling the Forward View
Introduction
Futures for the Third Millennium does not attempt to anticipate, forecast or predict the unfolding of the next thousand years. It is not a macro history of the future; rather, its focus is on the creation and use of futures-relevant knowledge - knowledge that can help individuals, organisations and, indeed, humankind...
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World Yearbook of Education 1998: Futures Education
David Hicks and Richard Slaughter (eds)
The World Yearbook of Education 1998 takes up the topic of Futures Education. The book is arranged in three parts. Part one deals with the foundations of futures education. Here seven futurists from the USA, Canada and Australia consider themes such as: understanding the field of FS, the nature of...
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Introduction to Volume Three of the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies: Directions and Outlooks
Richard A Slaughter
Volumes One and Two of the Knowledge Base explore structural aspects of futures studies such as concepts, methods and organisations. Volume Three is organised around ‘directions and outlooks’. These notions provide many of the resources we need to engage in the...
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Introduction to Volume Two of the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies: Organisations, Practices, Products
Richard A Slaughter
Volume One of the Knowledge Base presented various aspects of the foundations of futures studies. Volume Two builds upon these foundations in several ways. First, it presents an overview of a number of futures organisations. Clearly this is only a sample, yet it...
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Introduction to Volume One of the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies: Foundations
Richard A Slaughter
The concept of a ‘knowledge base’ is problematic in postmodern conditions in so far as it is identified with an unchanging social and epistemological order, and is hence presented as a cultural or epistemological fait accompli. However, that is not what is attempted here; rather...
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New Thinking for a New Millennium (1996)
Introduction
The end of one millennium and the beginning of another is a time of great cultural and symbolic significance. Inevitably there arises the difficult task of looking back at the last millennium and attempting to come to terms with its long and tangled history. Again, there is the equally difficult task of shifting our view out of what has...
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Futures Concepts and Powerful Ideas (1991, revised 1996, 2000 & 2002)
Introduction to First Edition (1991)
Futures Concepts and Powerful Ideas originally took two years to develop and produce. It was not intended as a teaching kit as such (though it has numerous uses in education) so much as a resource pack intended for the use of anyone wishing to understand or utilise some of the...
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Futures Tools and Techniques (1995, revised 1998, 2000 & 2002)
Introduction to First Edition
For some time there has been a need for a practical workbook of futures tools and techniques. This booklet is an attempt to fill that need. The material it contains has broad applicability not just across the school curriculum but also in tertiary and other contexts. Given this range, I have...
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Introduction to The Foresight Principle (1995)
The 1990s are significant for two key reasons. The first is that something old is coming apart at the seams, while something new is attempting to be born. The 'something old' is the industrial system which has reigned supreme on this planet for over two hundred years, changed it almost beyond recognition and brought it to the edge of...
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Introduction to Education for the Twenty First Century
Hedley Beare and Richard Slaughter
This book grew out of a common and deep-seated concern. As colleagues on the same faculty, we discovered that we were both using parallel and complementary materials while caught up in a flurry of talks, speeches, and workshops with educators who were worried about some of the trendlines in school...
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Preface to Studying the Future
This publication responds to a clear need, the need for a general introduction to an area of curriculum development which remains unknown or exotic for most teachers. Its forerunner was a collection of articles assembled for teachers in the Bicentennial Futures Education Project lighthouse schools. The general response was so positive that we decided to develop...
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Reflections on Recovering the Future
In 1986 I was invited to Australia to address a conference entitled Futures in Education. While there I noted some huge differences between it and the UK environment. I’d finished my PhD in 1982, been out of work for a year and, by chance, received a post-Doctoral fellowship from the then Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). But that was it....
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