Uncertainty x Design
Educating for Possible Futures

Provides insights, scenarios, and applications to help students embrace uncertainty and become creative authors of their own futures.

Ronald A. Beghetto (Author)

9781009069854, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 September 2024

192 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm, 0.32 kg

'Anyone looking for ways to teach students for the age of uncertainty should read this book. A remarkable discussion about why teaching should be different, with excellent examples of practical strategies.' Yong Zhao, co-author of Learning for Uncertainty: Teaching Students How to Thrive in a Rapidly Evolving World

Realizing more promising futures starts in the here and now. This book seeks to help young people learn how to become the creative authors of their own lives by approaching current and future uncertainties with an unshakeable sense of possibility. It describes how students can benefit from opportunities to develop their confidence and competence in taking creative action in the face of uncertainty by design. It introduces a framework for educators, researchers, and parents to understand, design, and examine efforts aimed at helping young people learn how and when to unleash their creative potential, now and into the future.

Preface
Part I. Approaching Uncertain Futures: 1. What Do We Owe Students?
2. Designing for Likely Futures
3. Designing for Uncertain Futures
4. Start with Uncertainty
Part II. Designing for Uncertain Futures: 5. Structuring Uncertainty
6. Seeing the Possible in Uncertainty
7. To Act or Not to Act
8. Making Principled Contributions
Avanti. From What Is to What Could Be
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Educational psychology [JNC]