ONLINE COURSE: GLOBAL SOCIO-CULTURAL FUTURES
Welcome to “Global Socio-Cultural Futures”, the second in our online series offered by Global Futures Education designed for individuals and organisations committed to facing global challenges and finding solutions.
Global socio-cultural challenges are complex and interconnected. This self-paced, online course introduces you to rapid urbanisation and its social, cultural and environmental stresses; entrenched issues such as racism, gender inequality, loss of meaning; and why the factory model of schooling is obsolete.
The course will empower you to imagine, design and create social and cultural innovations such as ecological and smart cities; social and cultural practices that are empowering, equitable, inclusive, and meaningful; and educational approaches that are creative, evolutionary, and transformative.
Course Content includes 12 Lessons across 3 Modules:
1. City Futures
2. Human Cultural Futures
3. Educational Futures.
Each Module includes two lessons on challenges, and two on solutions. The Full Course includes the three Modules. Or you can buy individual Modules.
The Course Content incorporates over 100 learning resources, including:
- 12 Lessons over 3 Modules: City Futures, Human Futures, Educational Futures.
- Four lessons per Module, two on the challenges, two addressing the solutions.
- 12 Instructor videos (one per Lesson) to guide you through the Course Content and Resources.
- Over 40 expert videos
- Over 50 expert articles/reports
- Links to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relevant to City Futures, Human Futures, Educational Futures (SDG 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 15, 17).
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD) - 30 Points.
- Certificate of Completion (Global Socio-Cultural Futures).