Teaching for uncertain futures - Neville Freeman Agency

15four scenario worldsPart 3FourscenarioworldsA Day in the Life of Catherine 2030There is a flag on my house. My houseis very colourful and very, very tall. Ithas buttons on it. I use a ladder to reachthe buttons. One opens up the door, onemakes the flag move and one makesthe shelter go up and down. There is amachine next door that when you open thedoor it washes you up.When you get in my car it takes you fora drive. You tell it where to go. It goes byitself. It stops by itself. It has eyes at thefront so it can see.Catherine Lerch4 yearsThe idea behind scenario building is toimagine alternative future worlds which are plausible,internally logical and robust and which aredistinctively different from each other.The scenario builders in the Open Book Scenariosproject had the opportunity to explore the manyelements of the environment – globally, nationallyand locally – that impinge on the work of the teachingprofession. They were stimulated, stretched andchallenged by their experience of learning from thefuture. Through this process they developed fourscenario worlds for 2030:Scenario 1Under the VolcanoScenario 2A Farewell to ArmsScenario 3The Grapes of WrathScenario 4The Magic MountainThese scenario worlds are quite distinct and are describedbelow through the eyes of four fictional individuals.Further ‘key aspects of life’ in each of the four 2030scenario worlds have also been described and arelocated in Appendix 1. A description of the fourscenario worlds follows.