Early Futures

Resources on alternative futures for and by young children.

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It is integral that we purposefully give our child peers tools to keep their imaginations connecting and deconstructing reality and fantasy. When a child can visualize, imagine and challenge the

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You Can Talk in the Universe / By Allie, age 4 (her twin brother is Nick who wrote “The Universe is Flat”) “I talk without using my mouth. I just say it

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The Real Future / By Abigail, age 4 “I know something that is going to happen in the future. It is the Sun gobbling up the Earth. The only number I can remember

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There’s no disputing that the architecture/design magazine, Dwell, is a vanguard in the war of modernism versus the world. Page after page of spacious, shimmering structures sprinkled lightly by expensive

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In the past few weeks I’ve been focusing on obtaining orally told stories/philosophies from the children on their ideas of the world, not just specifically on “futures”, but on everything.

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Recently I came across the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia. In this division they study (among other rarely researched experiences) children who’ve experienced a form of

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The Love of Hearts When the Dinosaurs Were Made / By Sylvie, age 4 “When there was love here we were happy. It was the time of the dinosaurs where there was

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The World’s Story / By Alexandra, age 4 “The universe is made of tiny round cells and the magic is how our cells join together. There is nothing in the space

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I. The Earth is Bright / By Edward, age 5 “The smashers of darkness came. The power of darkness tore the people into 7 stone. They were tiny pieces and they

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I Forgot the Future / By Adrienne, age 4 “The future was destroyed by all the lies. The lies are straight lines. You have to make a straight line to get

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How Did the Future Get People / By Riva, age 4 “Once upon a future the future was wiggling. The future was sad because the future didn’t have any people inside

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“For lack of a nail, the shoe was lost; for lack of a shoe, the horse was lost; for lack of a horse; the rider was lost; for lack of a rider; the

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The following books are excellent resources for practical and theoretical applications of Alternative Early Childhood Education and Futures Studies. 1. Reframing the Early Childhood Curriculum: Educational imperatives for the future, Jane

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A colleague of mine, Yutaka Houlette, worked with our Pre K students (3-5 years old) this past summer and created, with them, one of the best video projects with children

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Inevitably when I talk about implementing “future studies in early childhood education” most people are curious, but unsure of what it means in reality. Much of future studies is merely

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1 The Cat Who Lived One Million Times, by Sano Yoko (Translated from Japanese) There was a cat who could live for a million years. He died a million times, and lived a

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