Futures literacy in the loop

European Journal of Futures Research

Jan Erik KARLSEN¹ 

[1] University of Stavanger Business School, N-4036, Stavanger, Norway;

关键词: Futures literacy;    Time concepts;    Functional models;    Recursivity;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40309-021-00187-y

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

This article proposes a functional historicist explanation to explicate the core ideas and underlying logic embedded in the futures literacy concept.Futures literacy assumes a capacity to reflect on the past, sense and make sense of the present and use this reflective body of knowledge when anticipating the future.Arguably, futures literacy must be learned, sustained, and regained; it requires a continuous, anticipative, and recursive loop. Recursivity, where an effect in an initial period acts as a cause in the next period, retroacts between the future and present, regaining anticipation. Anticipation has causal effects in the way it structures our images of the future and the avenue we follow when striving to achieve this image. Such a causal structure implies both feedforward and feedback control and is contained in the logic of functional explanations used in sociology.

【 授权许可】

CC BY