Books

Books from Education Futures explore how learning, work, technology, and human development are being reshaped by a world in motion.

These publications bring together research, foresight, and practical reflection to challenge inherited assumptions about education and to imagine new futures for learners, educators, and institutions. Some volumes are edited collections. Others are direct interventions in debates about schooling, creativity, technology, and social change. Together, they form a body of work committed to asking what education is for, whom it serves, and what it might yet become.

This collection includes books authored and edited by John W. Moravec, along with collaborative works that have helped shape broader conversations around knowmads, invisible learning, and the future of education.

Books

Build a Positive Rebellion: Create New Education Futures

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Build a Positive Rebellion is a call to reclaim education from fear, stagnation, and inherited industrial logic. The book argues that schooling must move beyond compliance, standardization, and passive adaptation if it is to serve human flourishing in a time of democratic strain, technological acceleration, and deep uncertainty.

Drawing on the spirit of Manifesto 25, this work invites educators, learners, and institutions to imagine and build new education futures grounded in agency, creativity, critical thought, and collective responsibility. It is both a provocation and an invitation to act.

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Construir una Rebelión Positiva: Crear Nuevos Futuros para la Educación

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La edición en español de Build a Positive Rebellion lleva esta invitación a nuevos públicos y contextos. El libro cuestiona las lógicas heredadas que limitan la educación y propone imaginar futuros educativos más humanos, críticos, creativos y democráticos.

Más que una traducción, esta edición amplía el alcance de una conversación urgente sobre el sentido de la educación en tiempos de cambio acelerado, crisis institucional y nuevas posibilidades de acción colectiva.

Más información sobre la edición en español.

Emerging education futures: Experiences and visions from the field

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Edited by John W. Moravec, this 2019 volume brings together contributors from six continents to explore how education might evolve in response to uncertainty, technological change, and shifting human needs. The chapters combine field-based experience with broader visions for educational transformation.

The book offers a snapshot of emerging thinking about how learning, institutions, and policy can respond to rapidly changing social realities. It is designed to provoke new conversations and support educators and decision-makers who are trying to move beyond inherited models of schooling.

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Knowmad Society

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Edited by John W. Moravec, Knowmad Society explores the future of learning, work, and human relationships in a world shaped by accelerating change, networked value creation, and the rise of knowmads: creative, imaginative, and innovative people who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere.

The book argues that as knowledge work becomes less tied to fixed tasks and places, education must also change. Schools and other learning environments can no longer prepare people for stable industrial roles alone. They must help learners develop the capacity to create value, navigate complexity, and design their own futures.

Also available in Russian and German. View the book page.

Aprendizaje invisible

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Written in Spanish by Cristóbal Cobo and John W. Moravec, Aprendizaje invisible rethinks learning and human capital development in light of technological change and the shifting boundaries between formal, non-formal, and informal education. The book proposes a remix of innovative learning paradigms for the twenty-first century.

The work examines current theories, international experiences, and technological developments that point toward more sustainable forms of innovation in education. It invites readers to look beyond institutional boundaries and recognize the many ways learning already occurs across visible and invisible spaces.

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About these books

These books reflect a shared concern with educational transformation in a world where old assumptions no longer hold. Across different formats, languages, and moments in time, they ask how education can respond to complexity, mobility, creativity, technology, and the need for greater human agency.

This collection will continue to grow as new titles and editions are published.