TY - JOUR
T1 - Students' Abilities to Envision Scenarios of Urban Futures
AU - Pauw, I.
AU - van der Schee, Joop
AU - Béneker, Tine
AU - R. Vaart, van der
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - In this paper, we report on students' abilities to envision scenarios of urban futures after a lesson series based on futures education. The results on the critical and creative scenario thinking of geography students in three upper secondary schools improved significantly between a pretest and posttest. However, embedding newly imagined ideas in the spatial structures of tomorrow's cities turned out to be challenging for students. Although geographical knowledge and skills do seem to support students in scenario thinking, it appears to be a complex task to effectively combine knowledge and imagination in scenarios of urban futures.
AB - In this paper, we report on students' abilities to envision scenarios of urban futures after a lesson series based on futures education. The results on the critical and creative scenario thinking of geography students in three upper secondary schools improved significantly between a pretest and posttest. However, embedding newly imagined ideas in the spatial structures of tomorrow's cities turned out to be challenging for students. Although geographical knowledge and skills do seem to support students in scenario thinking, it appears to be a complex task to effectively combine knowledge and imagination in scenarios of urban futures.
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U2 - 10.6531/JFS.201812_23(2).0004
DO - 10.6531/JFS.201812_23(2).0004
M3 - Article
VL - 23
SP - 45
EP - 66
JO - Journal of Futures Studies
JF - Journal of Futures Studies
SN - 1027-6084
IS - 2
ER -