Uncertainty in Teacher Education Futures: Scenarios, Politics and STEM

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This book discusses the use of futures methodologies to examine and critique teacher education and investigate drivers of change in teacher education contexts, providing readers with futures tools that they can use to explore curricula and pedagogies. It explains futures methods, including scenario development and backcasting, and illustrates them with examples of research in science, technology and mathematics education contexts. By allowing the long-term influence of current trends to be considered and providing an opportunity to reflect on the present and imagine the future, scenarios provoke discussion on the directions that teacher education might take now. The book offers insights into the possibilities that might exist for teacher education futures and into how scenario building and planning can be used to inform debates about the present. Further, it suggests ways in which readers can influence the future of teacher education through understanding the drivers of change. Front Matter ....Pages i-xx Why the Future Is Important (Sandy Schuck, Peter Aubusson, Kevin Burden, Sue Brindley)....Pages 1-9 Key Drivers of Teacher Education (Sandy Schuck, Peter Aubusson, Kevin Burden, Sue Brindley)....Pages 11-25 Politics of Education: Tensions and Paradoxes (Sandy Schuck, Peter Aubusson, Kevin Burden, Sue Brindley)....Pages 27-41 Current Trends in Technology-Enhanced Learning (Sandy Schuck, Peter Aubusson, Kevin Burden, Sue Brindley)....Pages 43-61 Changing Knowledge, Changing Education (Sandy Schuck, Peter Aubusson, Kevin Burden, Sue Brindley)....Pages 63-75 Futures Methodology: Approaches, Methods, Tools and Techniques (Sandy Schuck, Peter Aubusson, Kevin Burden, Sue Brindley)....Pages 77-97 Teacher Educators Working with Scenarios (Sandy Schuck, Peter Aubusson, Kevin Burden, Sue Brindley)....Pages 99-114 Backcasting: Testing the Feasibility of Alternative Futures (Sandy Schuck, Peter Aubusson, Kevin Burden, Sue Brindley)....Pages 115-130 Schooling Scenarios: Looking Back to Look Forward (Sandy Schuck, Peter Aubusson, Kevin Burden, Sue Brindley)....Pages 131-148 Knowledge and Technology Challenging the Future (Sandy Schuck, Peter Aubusson, Kevin Burden, Sue Brindley)....Pages 149-175 Mobile STEM Learning Scenarios (Sandy Schuck, Peter Aubusson, Kevin Burden, Sue Brindley)....Pages 177-203 Science Education: Past Crises, Potential Futures (Sandy Schuck, Peter Aubusson, Kevin Burden, Sue Brindley)....Pages 205-231 Backcasting Mathematics Teaching: Preservice Teachers’ Voices (Sandy Schuck, Peter Aubusson, Kevin Burden, Sue Brindley)....Pages 233-251 Future—Always Coming Never Comes: Embracing Imagination and Learning from Uncertainty (Sandy Schuck, Peter Aubusson, Kevin Burden, Sue Brindley)....Pages 253-264