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- About this book
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The faculty at the University of Houston's program in Futures Studies share their comprehensive, integrated approach to preparing foresight professionals and assisting others doing foresight projects. Provides an essential guide to developing classes on the future or even establishing whole degree programs.
- About the authors
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PETER C. BISHOP is an Associate Professor of Strategic Foresight and Director of the Graduate Program in Futures Studies at the University of Houston, USA. He arrived there in 2005, having taught futures studies at the University of Houston-Clear Lake campus since 1982. He received his doctorate in sociology From Michigan State University in 1974.
ANDY HINES is Lecturer and Executive-in-Residence at the University of Houston's Graduate Program in Futures Studies, USA, where he graduated in 1991 and now speaks and consults through Hinesight. He has worked as an organizational futurist with the Kellogg Company and Dow Chemical and as a consulting futurist with Coates & Jarratt and Social Technologies.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-16
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Models of Change
Pages 19-62
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Systems Thinking
Pages 63-96
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Perspectives on the Future
Pages 97-111
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Social Change
Pages 112-156
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Teaching about the Future
- Authors
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- P. Bishop
- A. Hines
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-02070-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137020703
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-36349-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-34899-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 304
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