Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- PART 1: Designing the Future through Youth – Theoretical Considerations -- 1 Various Types of Futures: Pedagogical Contexts -- 1 Probable Futures: (Educational) Megatrends as Tools for Forecasting and Preparing for the Future -- 2 Possible Futures: Example Scenarios of Poland’s Development -- 3 Preferable Futures: Visions of the Future of the World and Education -- 4 Feminist Vision -- 5 Indigenous Vision -- 6 Spiritual Vision -- 2 Individual and Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Future Design in Youth -- 1 The Socio-Cultural Context of Future Planning -- 2 The Individual-Subjective Dimension of Future Design -- PART 2: Research Framework -- 3 Methodology of Quantitative Research: Patterns of Individual Future of High School Youth -- 1 Research Problem -- 2 Research Methods, Techniques, and Tools -- 3 Characteristics of the Research Area and the Sample Studied -- 4 Research Organisation and Processing of Empirical Material -- 4 Methodology of Qualitative Research: Academic Youth on the Future of Poland -- 1 Research Objectives -- 2 Method -- 3 Selection of Cases -- 4 Organisation of Research and Method of Processing Empirical Material -- PART 3: Analysis and Interpretation of Results -- 5 Characteristics of Individual Future Patterns of High School Youth -- 1 Motives for Choosing a Pattern -- 2 Future Patterns of Girls and Boys -- 3 Hierarchy of Future Patterns -- 4 Types of Future Patterns Preferred by Youth -- 5 Factors Influencing the Realisation of Future Patterns -- 6 Socio-Pedagogical Conditions for Designing Future Patterns -- 7 Individual Future Patterns: Conclusions -- 6 Academic Youth on the Desired Future of the Country -- 1 Desired Directions for the Development of Poland – Postulates -- 2 Preferred Visions of the Future -- 3 Preferred Future for Poland: Conclusions -- Conclusion -- 1 First Scenario: Resignation from Thinking and Designing the Future -- 2 Second Scenario: Greater Reflection on the Future -- 3 Third Scenario: Reduction -- 4 Fourth Scenario: Flourishing -- 5 Fifth Scenario: No Change -- References -- Index.

The expectations, hopes, dreams as well as anxieties and fears of the youth are often marginalized. This book presents answers to pivotal questions about the preferred individual and collective futures. Authors give the voice to young Polish students, who willingly and broadly describe their life projects and their desired world in the future. Qualitative and quantitative studies employed in the research document strong variations in students’ plans, aims and opinions. Certainly, their future visions may transfer you to unknown futures. Let’s remember that always and everywhere various futures are possible. Which one is preferred by you?

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