Futures literacy in the loop

Abstract 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 whe...

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Autor principal:	Jan Erik KARLSEN
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	SpringerOpen 2021
Materias:	Futures literacy Time concepts Functional models Recursivity Political science J Social sciences (General) H1-99
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/b1d605a097244dbc913f087138f697ce
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b1d605a097244dbc913f087138f697ce2021-11-28T12:28:49ZFutures literacy in the loop10.1186/s40309-021-00187-y2195-41942195-2248https://doaj.org/article/b1d605a097244dbc913f087138f697ce2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s40309-021-00187-yhttps://doaj.org/toc/2195-4194https://doaj.org/toc/2195-2248Abstract 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.Jan Erik KARLSENSpringerOpenarticleFutures literacyTime conceptsFunctional modelsRecursivityPolitical scienceJSocial sciences (General)H1-99ENEuropean Journal of Futures Research, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021)
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description	Abstract 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.
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Futures literacy in the loop

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