Educational Futures Research Group
Co-ordinator: Anna Craft
This research group, formed in 2008, brings together researchers engaged in educational futures research and development activity. Together we are seeking to establish the Exeter Institute for Educational Futures, working in the areas of:
- Futures Curriculum – developing innovative resources/programmes for 21st century challenges including sustainability and plurality;
- Futures Capabilities – capacity building helping teachers, leaders and learners, develop skills, habits, strategies, dispositions to face the future more successfully;
- Futures Experiments – implementing and working with live experimental models
Our work spans formal and informal learning from the early years through to adult learning and higher education. We seek to explore probable, possible and preferable futures through a mix of methodological approaches according to staff and research questions. We have strong links and overlaps with the research group, CREATE. Both groups are convened by Professor Anna Craft.
Staff involved in establishing the Exeter Institute for Educational Futures are engaged in:
- externally funded research and development
- external consultancy to educational projects, organisations and institutions
- offering advice to policy makers, co-developing policy where appropriate
- editing peer-review journal Thinking Skills and Creativity which emphasises the exploration of educational futures
- contributing to our teaching programmes
- organising Exeter-based seminars open to all
For more information please contact the convenor, Professor Anna Craft A.R.Craft@exeter.ac.uk
Journal
Thinking Skills and Creativity
Editors Prof Anna Craft and Prof Rupert Wegerif
Collaborative Projects
ASPIRE (February 2006 and ongoing). Professor Anna Craft is Director of this project, involving also Dr Kerry Chappell and Dr Nadine Schaefer together with doctoral students including Jim Clack, Margo Greenwood and Rupert Higham as well as doctoral graduate Dr Joy Lin. It seeks to engage aspirations of 5 – 19 year olds in leadership of school transformation. Funders have included National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, SWGate and Creative Partnerships. Presentations on this work have been made in Australia, Denmark, Hong Kong, Singapore and at various peer review international conferences. The Aspire work is emerging the concept of Learning Conversations and the notion of living dialogic space as inherent in creative learning. A paper has been published and others are in review / preparation. Collaborations are under way with other funders for extension work to this project.
Final report of the most recent phase of this work can be found below and the website for Aspire can be found here. http://education.exeter.ac.uk/aspire/
Documents
- Anna Craft Round Table provocations, QACI, Australia, March 09 (ppt, 10001kb, 03/04/09)
- Aspire Report Final Jan 09 (pdf, 631kb, 07/05/09)
- Horizon Scanning - briefing for 17th November seminar (doc, 1169kb, 08/11/09)
- Simon Mauger NIACE IFFL Seminar 17 Nov 09 (ppt, 12388kb, 19/11/09)
Dr Karen Aylward
Mr Rob Bowker
Dr Kerry Chappell
Professor Anna Craft
Dr Kim Diment
Professor Paul Ernest
Dr Rob Freathy
Mrs Pamela Freeman
Margo Greenwood
Dr Gill Haynes
Lindsay Hetherington
Mr Rupert Higham
Associate Professor Cathie Holden
Dr Cheryl Hunt
Mr Michael Jeffries
Mrs Svanborg Jonsdottir
Dr Judith Kleine-Staarman
Dr Nasser Mansour
Mr Ben Neild
Professor Brahm Norwich
Dr Deborah Osberg
Richard Osborne
Professor William Richardson
Ms Linda Rolfe
Dr Nadine Schaefer
Dr Salah Troudi
Professor Rupert Wegerif