Future-Oriented Ecucation

This session will demonstrate a ‘new' futures methodology through experiential learning for all attendees and participants. This methodology was developed through the teaching program at the Australian Foresight Institute. Based upon the theory of P.R. Sarkar and the writing of Sohail Inayatullah, the Sarkar Game allows the existing cultural scripts of all individuals to be ‘played' out in a present-based social drama. The game also demonstrates a meta-perspectival role that attempts to generate the futures that transcend the present-based drama. The Sarkar Game is also an article-in-press for a special issue of the journal, Futures.

Bio: Peter Hayward is a trained accountant and economist with over 25 years experience in taxation and public policy. He is also experienced in the use of systems thinking and modeling tools with regards to public policy initiatives. He completed a Certificate of Strategic Foresight at Swinburne at the Australian Foresight Institute (AFI) at Swinburne University in 2001. In 2002 he commenced his doctoral research into the development of individual and social foresight.

He has consulted to a range of organisations in the use of foresight methods. He is the author the inaugural monograph in the AFI's 2003 Monograph Series; “Foresight in Everyday Life”. He is also a lecturer at Swinburne concentrating mainly on the use of systems thinking and applying foresight in organizational environments. He is the author of the journal articles “Facilitating Foresight”, “The Moral Impediments to Foresight Action” and “Futures Thinking as a Catalyst for Change”. Current PhD being undertaken at Swinburne University , Melbourne , Australia .