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The future as an academic discipline.

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Book
Conference/Event
Conference Name:
Symposium on the Future as an Academic Discipline (1975 : London, England)
Series:
Ciba Foundation symposium ; new ser. 36.
Ciba Foundation Symposium (new series) ; 36
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Forecasting--Congresses.
Forecasting.
Universities and colleges--Curricula--Congresses.
Universities and colleges.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Amsterdam : Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North-Holland ; New York : American Elsevier, 1975.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.
Contents:
The Future as an Academic Discipline; Contents; Introduction; The Mark III survey of university-level futures courses; Discussion; A university experiment in Sweden; Discussion; The future as a discipline and the future of the disciplines; Discussion; A dragon or a pussy cat? Two views of human knowledge; Discussion; Social decisions prerequisite to educational change 1975-1985; Discussion; From academic hothouse to professional dugout: a mean free path; Discussion; Sclerotic structures and the future of academic organization; Discussion Eclectics: elements of a transdisciplinary methodology for futures studies Discussion; Some fundamental philosophical, psychological and intellectual assumptions of futures studies; Discussion; Universities as nerve centres of society; Discussion; Patterns of education for the future; Discussion; General Discussion; Concluding remarks; Biographies of the participants; Index of contributors; Subject index
Notes:
"Symposium on the Future as an Academic Discipline held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 6-8 February 1975"--Participants page.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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ISBN:
9786613693884
9781280783494
1280783494
9780470720189
0470720182
9780470717868
0470717866
OCLC:
797918345

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