Early Futures: Resources on futures for and by young children

Early Futures is a continually updated source of research, projects and notes regarding ideas that provide necessary alternatives for and by young children. The focus is on advocating futures oriented approaches for children which include: alternative institutions, play spaces, utopian visions and education. Future studies for children focuses also on major questions concerning our futures: What will the citizens of Earth need to know for the year 2050, 2100, etc? What are the most important skills for sustaining Earth and its citizens, sentient and non-sentient, in the near and far future? From the business perspective: how do we prepare ourselves and our children for the near future where 8 out of every 10 jobs have not been invented yet?

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Research on Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)

Causal layered analysis (CLA) is offered as a new research theory (drawing from poststructuralism, Tantric epistemology and futures studies) and method. As a theory it seeks to integrate empiricist, interpretive, critical, and action learning modes of knowing at inner and outer levels. As a method, its utility is not in predicting the future but in creating transformative spaces for the creation of alternative futures. It is also likely to be useful in developing more effective — deeper, inclusive, longer term — policy.