Anticipating the apocalypse: Monstrous educational futures

Priyadharshini, Esther ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9509-2865 (2019) Anticipating the apocalypse: Monstrous educational futures. Futures, 113. ISSN 0016-3287

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Abstract

Educators have been called to engage with the ontological problematic of the ‘future’ – its not- knowable nature – and to consider the radical implications of this notion for education. However, orthodoxies of schooling, research and institutional logics can work to constrain the space and tone of futures talk. One way of expanding the scope of such talk is to engage with the radical potentialities of futures by making space for youth preoccupations and speculations that exceed realist notions of how to anticipate futures and prepare for them. This paper explores how functions of the ‘speculative’ and ‘monstrous’, as elaborated in literary and popular culture analysis find echoes in data gathered with youth about their visions of ‘fantastic’ futures. These fantastic/monstrous narratives reveal the salience of dystopian/apocalyptic visions for youth and the different functions they can fulfil. These encounters also expose challenges for education and research that must be met if they are to remain relevant to young peoples’ needs to imagine, anticipate and prepare for monstrous futures.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	youth futures,fantastic,dystopia,apocalypse,social sciences(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Critical Cultural Studies In Education
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	12 Aug 2019 09:30
Last Modified:	13 Apr 2023 13:57
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/71931
DOI:	10.1016/j.futures.2019.102453

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