Future Schools 2009
A big part of future studies at any age is understanding the differences and similarities between actual, preferred and possible futures. In order to introduce the topic of variable futures, a drawing project was set up for a class of my Pre-K students. In the first part of the project they were to draw their actual kindergarten where they would be going the next fall. For the second part we discussed what they really wished kindergarten would look/be like and they drew their imagined future school.
1
Grace P, age 5.
Actual: “My future school next year is Arther Slate.”
Preferred: “My future school can fly and we play and eat a lot. It is 100 miles away in the future. It is a pizza school and we can eat it.”
Possible Similarity: Sky Farms
2
Fiona N., age 5
Actual: “My school next year is Roland Park Elementary.”
Preferred: “At my future school we can do whatever we want.”
Possible Similarity: Skanderborggade Day Care, Denmark mixed with Sudbury Valley Model School
3
Johns H.
Actual: “My school next, Greenmount.”
Preferred: “(In my future school) there are bats that we make. It will take a whole winter and spring to make this school. In the future school we make real rockets and volcanoes. We make inventions.”
Possible Similarity: Mayan Pyramids
4
Jack D., age 5
Actual: “My school next year will be Boys Latin.”
Preferred: “I don’t want to draw a future school because this is my future school.”
5
Isadora J. age 5
Actual: “My school next year, Montessori.”
Preferred: “In my future school people will have no head and clothes. We will play marbles and the whole school makes wand magic. This school is 10 years in the future.”
Possible Similarity: MAD Chinatown, Dubai
6
Josie R. age 5
Actual: “This is my school next year, Park School.”
Preferred: “At my future school we will scatter blood and walk through it. My school is eight days away.”
Possible Similarities: Hogwarts, School of Magic or Terrorist Schools?
7
Alex W., age 4
Actual: “My school next year, Kindergarten.”
Preferred: “My imaginary school is a rocket, we will play all day! This will happen in 1 million years.”
Possible Similarities: Japanese Color style with a Rocket Building Club
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