Dramatic changes in the fields of social science, technology, economics, environmental science, and political science are occurring at an accelerated rate. This has resulted in the transformation of a familiar and stable reality into one that is dynamic and turbulent. The answers of the past and present cannot provide solutions to the questions arising from a complex and obscure future; henceforth, individuals and organizations will need to cope with demanding, critical and - most significantly - unfamiliar challenges. Israel's education institutions and programs, like other organizations and systems in Israel and abroad, must provide solutions to the challenges they are facing while preparing for an unknown future that will be fundamentally different from the known present.
The R&D, Initiatives and Experiments Division was established in 2015-16 as a Future Pedagogical Planning Unit whose purpose is to meet these challenges. The division's activities will implement practices and techniques of organizational strategic foresight based on the academic discipline of futures studies. Past trends and patterns have been surveyed to serve as the basis for forecasts and scenarios for a desirable and sustainable future, and strategies and action plans have been formulated for implementation. In addition, large groups of stakeholders have been involved in the thinking processes through collective discourse. The final product of the Division's work is a position paper proposing a plan for future-oriented pedagogy. Future-oriented pedagogy provides a pedagogical solution in the present for the requirements which derive from emerging trends and supports the preparation of students for life in the expected reality.
Further and more detailed information regarding the process is available in the policy outline: Future-Oriented Pedagogy: Trends, Challenges, Principles, and Recommendations (2016).
An abstract based on the Policy Outline (English).
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