Forecasting the Educational Future.

Overview & Synopsis

This collection of essays on futurism is intended to open avenues for exploration, raise pertinent issues, and direct attention to new considerations. In "The Future: Implications for the Preparation of Educational Personnel," Dean C. Corrigan focuses on conditions that seem pertinent to development in future education and comments about two areas of change: the explosion of human interaction and the explosion of knowledge, accompanied by dramatic technological developments. In "Education Needed To Meet the Psychological Requirements for Living in the Future," Glen Heathers examines major features of changing society that are shaping the future, identifies the psychological demands these changes place on the individual, and lists types of changes in education needed to meet these demands. In "Whither Goest the Curriculum?" Louis J. Rubin makes recommendations for the curricula of the future after reviewing the ongoing disputes among theorists regarding the current difficulties of education. In "A Curriculum for Personalized Education," Robert G. Scanlon defines personalized education as a blend of the critical elements of individualized education, humanized education, and career education. In "Computer Technology: Key to the Future?" Harold E. Mitzel, stimulated by the slow-paced adaptation of computers to education tasks, discusses some of the incentives and constraints that operate on computer application to instruction. (PD)