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Posted Anonymously |
Future thinking in different cultures
Sep 27 2008, 7:14 AM EDT
to be able to tech future thinking and future approaches or even methods you have to understand how the future is viewed in different cultures. As an example in many African cultures the future of future generations is as important as the remembrance of past generations. there are no breakages in generations
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1. RE: Future thinking in different cultures
Sep 27 2008, 8:58 AM EDT
Excellent observation! Now if I could push this forward a bit. Could you provide evidence of "how" the view of the future would alter the teaching approach or methods more precisely. It would greatly advance my "learning" on teaching foresight.
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Posted Anonymously |
2. RE: Future thinking in different cultures
Sep 27 2008, 12:57 PM EDT
"Excellent observation! Now if I could push this forward a bit. Could you provide evidence of "how" the view of the future would alter the teaching approach or methods more precisely. It would greatly advance my "learning" on teaching foresight."I have learned having been teaching for 30 years foresight in an international university with students from all regions of the world, that they would revise their thinking about their future only in cultural terms and see the connections with other students from other countries and learn to use the thinking and the tools discussed in class. I would also learn from them and continually rethink my way of teaching in an a learning experience among all of us . I have a very good feedback from the students back in their countries who now either teach or use foresight. Do you find this valuable? |
reed.riner |
3. RE: Future thinking in different cultures
Sep 28 2008, 12:51 AM EDT
Hi "anonymous",This Tues AM I am going to be engaging Froshpersons in discussion of Paul Bohannon's paper about how the Tiv conceptualize 'time" (geneological distance) and the future. In support of 'academic/scholarly' honesty, and cite'ability', will you please replace your 'anonymous' with a 'call-name' closely linked to your own publication name. We're not in our _2nd Life_ ... yet. ;-) Reed 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Posted Anonymously |
4. RE: Future thinking in different cultures
Oct 3 2008, 1:14 PM EDT
The topic is suggested by Eleonora Masini
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Posted Anonymously |
5. RE: Future thinking in different cultures
Oct 3 2008, 1:18 PM EDT
I did not mean to be anonymous. Sorry.You are right we are not yet in our second life
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reed.riner |
6. RE: Future thinking in different cultures - Back on Topic
Oct 3 2008, 9:00 PM EDT
Note: Editor, please delete our digression. ;-)One way that anthropologists sort the world's cultures is by complexity - which correlates with modes of subsistence/ production: hunter-gatherer bands, horticultural (gardening) and/or herding tribes and chiefdoms, neolithic states/empires w irrigation agriculture, nation states w horse/plow agriculture, industrial states with tractor/petroleum agriculture. Based on the ethnographic reports I can find, I find a correlation between these types and the ways the cultures conceptualize time, incl. past and future. These latter types seem to echo the time-conceptions associated with C.Jung's 4 temperament types. People in band-level societies conceive of / experience a sort of persistent NOW 'cocooned' in 'myth' -e.g. the Australian's 'Dream Time' - with which they recurrently 'unite' through rituals. People in tribal/chiefdom societies experience/ describe recurrent (nature-linked) repeating cycles. This continue up into neolithc states and empires. Then, as best I can determine there's a 'singularity' when the little boy at the corner of the table asks, "And why is this night different?" - commemorated in the Seder ritual of Passover. Time straightens out into a directional sequence of unique, non-repeating events, the image, albeit Newtonized, that were use today - despite Einstein's description of the space-time continuum. Sensory > Feeling > Thinking > Intuitive in Jungian terms. Is this ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny ... again? Reed Do you find this valuable? |
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ProfessorWantanabe |
7. RE: Future thinking in different cultures
Oct 5 2008, 9:13 PM EDT
"I have learned having been teaching for 30 years foresight in an international university with students from all regions of the world, that they would revise their thinking about their future only in cultural terms and see the connections with other students from other countries and learn to use the thinking and the tools discussed in class. I would also learn from them and continually rethink my way of teaching in an a learning experience among all of us . I have a very good feedback from the students back in their countries who now either teach or use foresight."Your teaching experience exceeds mine:) Perhaps, you will indulge my asking again--for a concrete example of "how" one would specifically modify a lesson or teaching approach to accommodate a particular indigenous view of the future--your choice of the particular culture:) kay Do you find this valuable? |
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8. RE: Future thinking in different cultures
Oct 13 2008, 12:36 PM EDT
"Your teaching experience exceeds mine:)I thank you for your replies. What I mean by classes with students of different cultuires is that when teaching about foresight in different areas such as philosophical and ethical basis , methods or specific foresight research cerried out in diffrent countries, etc, two things are important : first the debate with the students shows clearly their reactions to the different cultural back grounds of the studies being presented and this brings out their own cultural backgroungs , second in developing various foresight excercises on specific topics in class or not, you can help them apply foresigh in their own countries with their understanding of their own cultures. I have experienced this in reading how and what they teach tor research in foresight in their own countries by reading the reports which they often send me or when I visit their countries. This teaches me also. Of course my students are in an international university hence with a certain level of education and speaking fluently either English, Spanish or French Do you find this valuable? |
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ProfessorWantanabe |
9. RE: Future thinking in different cultures
Oct 13 2008, 1:30 PM EDT
THANKS! I'm curious if anyone else "out there" has a story/ example to validate thoughts about teaching "foresight" in different cultures.I'm looking for the law of large numbers to kick in here:) kay Do you find this valuable? |
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h_kwok |
10. RE: Future thinking in different cultures
Oct 15 2008, 10:08 PM EDT
"to be able to tech future thinking and future approaches or even methods you have to understand how the future is viewed in different cultures. As an example in many African cultures the future of future generations is as important as the remembrance of past generations. there are no breakages in generations"interesting points being raised here. my take 1. to make someone accepts future thinking as a way ahead, we must make it relevant not only in the context of traditions, cultures or necessity. 2. wehn we look into future thinking we are trying to look into connectedness of things. are we trying to break down this connectedness by simply being to narrowly focus on future thinking. a more holisitc approach is how to make future thinking well-embedded into our daily thinking. they are peas in the same bod not exclusive. warmly 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
