Equitable and Desirable Futures

Abstract

Education has always been well placed for catalysing change – this privilege must be recognised – and being harnessed for good. the role of the education establishments and the educators themselves are key to changing this – it is time for a more relatable, inclusive, accurate, hopeful and careful reflection of humanity to engage in equitable and desirable futures thinking. Acts of queering in the educational context open up new avenues of thinking and practice that go beyond the narrow confines towards making space for equitable and desirable futures. An equitable and inclusive ‘Experimental Realist’ classroom is democratic and diverse, empathic and expectant, personal and protopian. An equitable curriculum presents and critically dismantles the ‘canon’, teaches a decolonised history curriculum, develops awareness of elements of diversity and global issues, and introduces a history of futures across the cultures and media.