The Education Futurist
Ideas & thinking
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Futures Literacy: Why Every Child Should Leave School Futures Literate
Just over a million people aged 16 to 24 across the UK were not in education, employment or training at the beginning of this year (Office for National Statistics, 2026).…
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AI alignment is a futures literacy problem
Everyone building AI systems is talking about alignment. How do we ensure AI serves human values? How do we make it safe and beneficial? How do we keep it under…
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What Do We Actually Mean by “Future-Ready”?
A Causal Layered Analysis of education’s favourite phrase “Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present…
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What Nietzsche Got Right About Uncertainty Monday I reclaimed the word utopia. Today I want to reclaim another word the twentieth century ruined. Übermensch. I can feel the discomfort from…
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What If Young People’s Anxiety Is Actually Information?
We keep trying to fix young people’s anxiety about the future. Resilience programmes. Wellbeing support. Reassurance that things will work out if they work hard enough. But what if their…