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FuturesFUTURES AND EDUCATION RESEARCH: A project which involved the National Education Research Forum (NERF) and the Tomorrow Project (TTP)About NERF The remit of NERF was to provide strategic direction for educational research nationally and to raise the quality, profile and impact of educational research. Its key objective was to oversee the development of a coherent strategy for education research. About TTP TTP is a registered charity, whose role is to support organisations and individuals in thinking about the long-term future of people’s lives. (See www.tomorrowproject.net). About their role Following NERF’s decision to take part in the TTP programme of work, the two organisations undertook a project using futures methods to help ensure the best possible match between the needs for and delivery of education research – so fulfilling NERF’s declared intention of including a futures element in its work in support of those relating to funding, capacity and research priorities. The project aimed to help ensure that match by identifying the main, long-term pressures on the education system that require better knowledge and understanding through research. Its method was to use a set of societal trends as a framework within which to ask questions about those pressures, using TTP’s established consultative approach. In the course of its work across a broad range of topics and organisations, TTP has evolved material on the main trends and drivers of change affecting the future of people’s lives. This material has been expressed by TTP in the form of an acronym, GLIMPSES, which is used in its work as a means of presenting and using these drivers as an integrated set: Globalisation Life course Individuals and identity Media Politics and government Shape of Society Employment Sustainability The eight headings in this set were used as the basis of a series of consultations involving key players in education and research, with the aim of promoting questions and discussion. They took place between November 2004 and March 2006. The consultations were used to help list and categorise in a comprehensive way the main, long-term pressures on the education system requiring better knowledge and understanding. The process was not be based on preconceptions about policy requirements or research capacity. The Final Report The final report has been published in the NERF Working Paper series, and can be accessed here For further information on the Tomorrow Project contact Richard Worsley: Richard Worsley The Tomorrow Project richard.worsley2@btinternet.com 01328 730297 |
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