Future Learning Design Podcast Strange Times for Educational Futures - A Conversation with Prof. Keri Facer
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Mar 7, 2026 Keri Facer, Professor of Educational and Social Futures who studies temporal imagination and sustainability. She discusses linking climate, technology and education. She explores how different temporal frames shape schooling, practical classroom prompts to reveal time assumptions, rituals to settle learning in the body, and pedagogic moves for interrupting dominant future imaginaries.
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Futures Aren't Just About Technology
- Education's futures are shaped by more than tech companies and require questioning dominant imaginaries.
- Keri Facer traced her concern from 'tech-bro' designed futures into linking ecological, technological, social and cultural change as inseparable drivers of learning.
Schools Are Stuck In Linear Future Thinking
- Modern education uses a linear developmental timeline that over-emphasizes future job preparation.
- Facer argues we must surface deeper yearnings like security and well-being that underlie 'prepare-for-work' narratives.
Use Utopia As A Method To Surface Longings
- Use utopia and dreaming as methods to question the present and surface longings that shape educational aims.
- Facer endorses Ruth Levitas' idea of 'utopia as method' to make desires active actors in present pedagogy.
