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	<description>supporting edge concepts about, from and for children</description>
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		<title>Futurist Tool</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/mixtum</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Early Futures affiliate project, MIXTUM, is releasing it&#8217;s first futurist tool (for children and adults alike).The open-ended tool is a circular mandala of symbols, organized in concentric rings, which allows a player to spin for a random arrangement of three symbols. The game is designed to create very surrealistic outcomes, focusing on the combining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Sketches from a preschooler</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/2011/07/04/future-sketches-from-a-preschooler/</link>
		<comments>http://earlyfutures.com/2011/07/04/future-sketches-from-a-preschooler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child Psychology + Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Futures Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Drawings of some things in the future according to Gregory, age four:
 Reaching into Space >> 

 Some principles of things >> 

 (Will we be) Riding on Air? >> 

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		<title>Books on Children&#8217;s Narratives</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/2011/06/30/books-on-childrens-narratives/</link>
		<comments>http://earlyfutures.com/2011/06/30/books-on-childrens-narratives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books & Articles]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earlyfutures.com/?p=1565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not sure how much one can learn from children? Consider reading a few of these works documenting children&#8217;s stories of their experience. The books are a diverse mixture filled with inspiring, surprising accounts of a range of children&#8217;s experiences, inner, outer and otherwise. 
The Spiritual Life of Children
Robert Coles
Robert Coles is a solid, long-standing figure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mandala Practices with Children</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/mandalapracticeswithchildren</link>
		<comments>http://earlyfutures.com/mandalapracticeswithchildren#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Child Psychology + Philosophy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earlyfutures.com/?p=1664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“The mandala (Sanskrit “circle”) is a basic form which can be found in nature, in the elements of matter, in the plant and animal worlds, as well as in objects and images created by man and his psyche. It portrays a system of order which superimposes itself, so to speak, on the psychic chaos in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Adventure Playground</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/berkeleyadventureplayground</link>
		<comments>http://earlyfutures.com/berkeleyadventureplayground#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 21:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Play]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child Psychology + Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Futures Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adventure playgrounds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[berkeley adventure playground]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child built]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child visions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child-centered play]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preschool visions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[utopias]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earlyfutures.com/?p=1593</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Time to return to the always inspirational adventure playground. We already described the essence of what adventure playgrounds are in other articles, we now turn to the reality and details of a specific adventure playground: the Berkeley adventure playground. How does it work? What does it look like? How does one maintain an adventure playground?
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Play Parks</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/2011/04/29/japanese-play-parks/</link>
		<comments>http://earlyfutures.com/2011/04/29/japanese-play-parks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hand-painted sign read Abenteuerspielplatz and seemed like just another interestingly incongruous vignette to stop and take a picture of along a photo-walk I was taking from Ikebukuro station to Shinjuku station in Tokyo last winter.  Along the three miles I had walked, I passed an once-ostentatious neon hotel sign now engulfed in bamboo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presentations by Children</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/presentationsbyto</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["children's research"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["children's think tank"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, here are the highlight clips from children who were giving guided reviews of their work to their peers in the Children&#8217;s Think Tank. The videos show the range and diverse set of topics and insight, as well as presentation styles, of the children who were involved.
First is two short clips from five-year-old Abigail. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overimitation in Learning</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/2011/03/22/overimitation-in-learning/</link>
		<comments>http://earlyfutures.com/2011/03/22/overimitation-in-learning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Play]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alison Gopnik&#8217;s research lab at UC Berkeley recently posted a new article describing their research on how young children respond to direct instruction vs. naive demonstration. 
You can read the .pdf of the article &#8220;Children&#8217;s Imitation of Causal Action Sequences&#8221; by Buchsbaum, Gopnik, Griffiths &#038; Shafto or the summarized article in Slate: &#8220;Why Preschools Shouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preschoolers View Future / Talk</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/2011/03/19/preschoolers-view-future-talk/</link>
		<comments>http://earlyfutures.com/2011/03/19/preschoolers-view-future-talk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum Notes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earlyfutures.com/?p=1487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A talk on future studies projects with preschoolers undertaken at Bolton Hill Nursery School.
Institute for the Future / Anne Arundel Community College / Nov. 16, 2010 (3 parts)
View corresponding slide show here.
View the talk:

Preschoolers View the Future &#8211; Part 1

Preschoolers View the Future &#8211; Part 2 of 3

Preschoolers View the Future &#8211; Part 3 of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tarot Stories</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/tarotchildren</link>
		<comments>http://earlyfutures.com/tarotchildren#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[children's illustrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children's narratives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children's stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future narratives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greek myth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[italo calvino]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[symbols in preschool]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earlyfutures.com/?p=1217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the more fascinating tasks of being with children is learning how to obtain (let alone understand) the narratives and inner stories from young children who can find it difficult to express their complex feelings in simple language. Symbols and myths have long been a part of teaching and encouraging expression with young children, from retelling ancient fairy tales to labeling all things in a childhood classroom with words <em>and</em> pictures. Children learn (and are educated) through symbols.]]></description>
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		<title>You Think Just Because You&#8217;re Big You&#8217;re Right</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/2011/01/27/you-think-just-because-youre-big-youre-right/</link>
		<comments>http://earlyfutures.com/2011/01/27/you-think-just-because-youre-big-youre-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books & Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Books + Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child Psychology + Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["children's books"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[albert cullum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[early childhood amnesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspirational children's book]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earlyfutures.com/?p=1204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Albert Cullum. 
You may know of Albert Cullum from his more popular book, &#8220;The Geranium On The Windowsill Just Died But Teacher You Went Right On&#8221; a book of poems ironically reflecting on teaching and education from a child&#8217;s perspective.
His later book, &#8220;You Think Just Because You&#8217;re Big You&#8217;re Right,&#8221; is a darker, more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spirit Presentation</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/2011/01/17/spirit-presentation/</link>
		<comments>http://earlyfutures.com/2011/01/17/spirit-presentation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sketches]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA["children's research"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["children's think tank"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children's beliefs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[futures lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[participatory pedagogy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earlyfutures.com/?p=1197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is Warner Brockman&#8217;s lecture (age 10), presented at the Children&#8217;s Think Tank Show. He created and edited the content and the presentation with minimal digital assistance from our Think Tank research assistant team (be sure to let presentation load).

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Warner&#8217;s Life, Death and Reincarnation Presentation on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critical Spirituality in Pedagogy</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/2011/01/17/critical-spirituality-in-pedagogy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books & Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child Psychology + Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical pedagogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[practicing consciousness]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earlyfutures.com/?p=1158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the beginning of 2011, I will be rereading the following articles, which all peripherally help define how to consider the spiritual in relation to critical agency and education.
Critical Spirituality as a Resource for Fostering Critical Pedagogy &#8211; Ivana Milojevic
Comparative discussion of multiple spiritual perspectives and the relationship with critical pedagogy.
Understanding and Teaching Future Consciousness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research Summaries</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/fall2010researchsummaries</link>
		<comments>http://earlyfutures.com/fall2010researchsummaries#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[inspirational children's stories]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earlyfutures.com/?p=1136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Children&#8217;s Think Tank completed their first session in December 2010! In the next month we will be updating their final work, including sharing two fantastic presentations made by a few children during our opening. In the meantime, we&#8217;d like to share our &#8220;Research Summaries&#8221; publication put out for the culminating event at the Maryland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Book of Dreams</title>
		<link>http://earlyfutures.com/2010/12/02/a-book-of-dreams/</link>
		<comments>http://earlyfutures.com/2010/12/02/a-book-of-dreams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Early Futures</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earlyfutures.com/?p=1129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
A Book of Dreams by Peter Reich is an fascinating read for those concerned with education, futures or children.
Peter Reich is the son of renowned, brilliant psychiatrist and researcher, Wilhelm Reich. A Book of Dreams is his narrative on his life growing up in the midst of Wilhelm Reich&#8217;s research. As a child he was [...]]]></description>
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