Knowledge creation, futures methodologies and the integral agenda

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Title: Knowledge creation, futures methodologies and the integral agenda
Author(s): Slaughter, Richard A.
Abstract: For futures studies to progress toward a fully-fledged discipline its knowledge creation processes must be clear and comprehensible. They must be capable of being taught, learned, critiqued and modified. This paper provides a rationale for using a version of Wilber’s four-quadrant model as one way of understanding the knowledge creation process in futures studies. It applies this structurally to knowledge creation through four contrasting futures methodologies. The latter are then recontextualized within the four-quadrant framework. It is suggested that a rapprochement between futures studies and an emerging ‘integral agenda’ provides a sound approach to the civilizational challenge facing humankind.
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Australian Foresight Institute
Source: Foresight: the Journal of Future Studies, Strategic Thinking and Policy, Vol. 3, no. 5 (Oct 2001), pp. 407-418
Publication year: 2001
Keyword(s): Knowledge creation; Methodology; Organizational design
Publisher: Emerald
ISSN: 1463-6689
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14636680110697129
Peer reviewed