Emerging Education Futures: Experiences and Visions from the Field
We ask education to prepare people for the future, yet too often we design it from the past.
In societies shaped by uncertainty, technological change, and shifting social realities, education cannot remain tied to static assumptions about knowledge, work, and human development. Schools and universities are asked to prepare learners for futures that do not yet exist, but they often continue to rely on models built for worlds that have already changed.
Emerging education futures: Experiences and visions from the field begins from that tension. The volume brings together voices from multiple continents to examine how educators, institutions, and communities are already experimenting with new approaches to learning, teaching, and transformation. It asks what becomes possible when education stops reproducing inherited systems and starts engaging the realities of a rapidly changing world.
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With contributions from four continents, this book offers a snapshot of emerging thinking about how education might evolve in response to complexity, mobility, technological disruption, and changing human needs. The chapters combine lived experience, practical experimentation, and forward-looking reflection to provoke new conversations among educators, policymakers, and change-makers.
The volume does not offer a single blueprint. Instead, it presents a set of experiences, visions, and questions that help illuminate how education can move beyond inherited industrial assumptions and toward more open, adaptive, and human-centered futures.
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Emerging education futures explores how educators and institutions are responding to change through new practices, new ideas, and new questions about what education is for.
The volume is organized into two complementary parts. The first presents concrete experiences from the field, while the second develops broader visions and conceptual directions for education futures.
Introduction
Introduction to emerging education futures (John W. Moravec)
Part I: Experiences
- AI in higher education: Considering the ecosystem in an emerging-country context (Leona Ungerer)
- Transforming higher education with a focus on integration and mastery (Lisa B. Bosman, Julius C. Keller, & Gary R. Bertoline)
- Institutionalizing community engagement in higher education: The community engagement institute (Audrey Falk & Russell Olwell)
- Virtual communities of practice in the future of education (Silvia C. Enríquez, Sandra B. Gargiulo, María Jimena Ponz, & Erica Elena Scorians)
- It’s all in the approach: Transforming education for all (Robert Thorn)
- A heutagogical approach to rheology (Erling N. Dahl, Einar N. Strømmen, & Tor G. Syvertsen)
Part II: Visions and ideas
- Does the future need schools? What is education really for? (John W. Moravec & Kelly E. Killorn)
- Affordances of pedagogy (Pekka Ihanainen)
- Multiliteracies dynamic affinity spaces: Analysing the potential of a new framework to educate for Knowmad Society (Stefania Savva)
- Reimagining teacher training: Building an innovative pathway from the lifelong learning and knowmad professional profiles (Gabriela Carreño Murillo)
- REI School: A school to fit any child (Erik Miletić)
Appendix
Manifesto 15: Evolving learning
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This volume brings together contributors from four continents to examine how education might respond to emerging technological, social, and institutional realities. It combines practice-based insight with critical reflection, offering both grounded examples and broader conceptual provocations.
The chapters speak to educators, researchers, leaders, and policymakers who are working to rethink learning in contexts shaped by uncertainty, complexity, and rapid transformation.
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Moravec, J. W. (Ed.). (2019). Emerging education futures: Experiences and visions from the field. Education Futures LLC. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19051170