COVER -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Facing the Fold -- Section I: Scenario Planning: What, Why, and How -- 1. Plotting Your Scenarios -- 1 Finding a Few Plots -- 2 Fleshing Out the Scenario Plots -- 3 Ten Tips for Successful Scenarios -- 2. Scenario Planning: Art or Science? -- Part I: What's wrong with regarding scenario planning as only an art? -- Part II: How does scenario planning differ from predict-and-control, monological science? -- Part III: Scenario Planning and A New Kind of Science -- Part IV: Art and Ethics-the Aesthetics of Normative Scenarios -- 3. Equity and Equality: Education in the Information Age -- Part I: Implementing Scenario Planning -- Part II: A Declaration of Educational Equity -- Part III: Putting Information Era Content into Scenario Form -- Section II: Scenario Planning in Context -- 4. Future Studies and the Human Sciences: -- 1. The Emergent Paradigm in the Human Sciences -- 2a. Anthropology: From Explanation by Law to a Semiotic Discipline -- 2b. Implications of New Anthropology for Future Studies -- 3a. Literary Criticism and the Legacy of Existentialism -- 3b. The Import of Recent Literary Criticism for Future Studies -- 4a. The Import of Psychology for the Emergent Paradigm -- 4b. Import of Object Relations Psychology for Future Studies -- 5a. From Critical Theory to Existential Sociology -- 5b. Import of Existential Sociology for Future Studies -- 6. Toward an Emergent Paradigm -- 7. A New Look at Norms -- 8. Earth Might Be Fair… A Normative Scenario -- 5. Scenario Planning as the Fulfillment of Critical Theory -- Part I. The Dilemmas of Critical Theory -- Part II. Unraveling the dilemmas of critical theory -- Part III. Scenario Planning and the role of Hope -- 6. What Business Strategists Have to Learn from Sartre -- 7. Organizational Learning, Evolution, and Scenarios.

1. Stories, Heritability, and Institutional Memory -- 2. Evolutionary Theory and Scenario Planning -- 3. Lessons for Organizational Learning -- Section III: Case Studies and Examples -- 8. Mapping Scenario Planning in the Public and Private Sectors: Lessons from regional projects -- Regions of Experience -- Lessons Applied: Scenarios for the future of California's Central Valley -- 9. Three Scenarios for Higher Education in California -- PART ONE: The Problem and a Method for its Solution -- PART TWO: Key Factors and Driving Trends -- PART THREE: Scenarios -- Scenario One: Software Landing -- Scenario Two: Education Inc. -- Scenario Three: The New Educational Order -- PART FOUR: Conclusions -- Afterword -- 10. Four Scenarios for the Future of Public Education in Seattle -- Part One: The Scenario Method -- Part Two: Predetermined Elements -- Part Three: Critical Uncertainties -- Part Four: Scenarios -- Part Five: Implications -- BACKCOVER.