Early Futures

10 Early Childhood + Futures Studies Resources

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 M. Page

2. Educational Futures: Dominant and Contesting Visions, Ivana Milojevic

3. Curriculum in Abundance (Studies in Curriculum Theory Series), David W. Jardine, Sharon Friesen and Patricia Clifford

4.Alternative Educational Futures (Educational Futures Rethinking Theory and Practice)
, Ivana Milojevic, Sohiel Inayatullah and Marcus Bussey

5. Deschooling Society, Ivan Illich

6. Imaginary Worlds, notes on a new curriculum, Richard Murphy

7. Kingdom of Childhood, Growing up at Sudbury Valley School, Edited by Mimsy Sadofsky and Daniel Greenberg

8. Transpersonal Education: A Curriculum for Feeling and Being, Edited by Gay Hendricks and James Fadiman

9.Youth Futures: Comparative Research and Transformative Visions, Jennifer Gidley and Soheil Inayatullah

10. In addition, articles and books by the following future studies authors (not mentioned above) I’ve found extremely practical and useful: David Hicks, Gary Hampson, Chris Jenks, Richard Slaughter, Jim Dator, Frank Hutchinson and Edward Cornish.

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