<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Education is a future-facing activity. Therefore, universities need to engage students in building alternative and preferable future scenarios and reveal features of unsustainability, as well as open spaces for students to participate in discussions and negotiate new meanings. This paper reveals the future visions bachelor’s and master’s degree students from one of the regional universities in eastern Latvia have of education and focuses on a sustainability analysis (sustainable and unsustainable) of societal aspects and education. The authors conclude that thinking about preferred futures make students more aware of the positive changes that could be made and their personal responsibility to contribute to these changes. In this connection, the need to take a broad, integrated and holistic view of the future and its social and personal significance is of utmost importance.</p></abstract>

Education is a future-facing activity. Therefore, universities need to engage students in building alternative and preferable future scenarios and reveal features of unsustainability, as well as open spaces for students to participate in discussions and negotiate new meanings. This paper reveals the future visions bachelor’s and master’s degree students from one of the regional universities in eastern Latvia have of education and focuses on a sustainability analysis (sustainable and unsustainable) of societal aspects and education. The authors conclude that thinking about preferred futures make students more aware of the positive changes that could be made and their personal responsibility to contribute to these changes. In this connection, the need to take a broad, integrated and holistic view of the future and its social and personal significance is of utmost importance.

Envisioning the Future: Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree Students’ Perspectives

Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability

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Education is a future-facing activity. Therefore, universities need to engage students in building alternative and preferable future scenarios and reveal...

Envisioning the Future: Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree Students’ Perspectives

Published Online: Mar 11, 2015

Page range: 88 - 102

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jtes-2014-0013

Keywords
preferable futures, feared futures, features of unsustainability, features of sustainability, higher education

© Dzintra Iliško, Astrīda Skrinda and Ilona Mičule

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Envisioning the Future: Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree Students’ Perspectives

Published Online: Mar 11, 2015

Page range: 88 - 102

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jtes-2014-0013

Keywordspreferable futures, feared futures, features of unsustainability, features of sustainability, higher education

© Dzintra Iliško, Astrīda Skrinda and Ilona Mičule

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
preferable futures, feared futures, features of unsustainability, features of sustainability, higher education