Abstract: ABSTRACT Research is most generally conceived as an enquiry directed at past or present events. Is systematic and rigorous enquiry on the future possible? The paper outlines some reasons why thisis an important question and suggests that research on educational futures could consist in using what is available from empirical data by way of predictions and trends combined with sets of educational values set in alternative relations. This possibility is briefly adumbrated by considering a school doing ‘research on its future’. It is argued that such a conception would make extensive demands on the philosophy of education which, it is suggested, should begin to tackle problems at a classroom base and in cooperation with empirical researchers. Such research would also put a premium on the philosophical imagination and on the ways in which philosophers communicate with those outside the discipline.
Publication Year: 1981
Publication Date: 1981-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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