Possible futures of European education : numerical and system's forecasts

TLDR: In this article, the authors discuss the need to study the future, but reservations with regard to long-range forecasting and the need for modifying the methods of planning based on a system of values.

Abstract: Possible Futures of European Education.- 1. On General Problems of Social Forecasts.- 2. Forecasts of Educational Expenditures in Fourteen European Countries and the United States.- 3. A Systems Prognostication of the European Social System.- 4. On a Theory of Education.- 5. Trends in the System's Development.- 6. Summary.- How Should the Future be Studied?.- 1. Necessity of studying the future, but reservations with regard to long-range forecasting.- 2. Outstanding socio-economic trends today.- 3. All planning is based on a system of values.- 4. Necessity of modifying the methods of planning.- 5. The international system.- Social and Cultural Futures in Western Europe a Framework for Analysis.- 1. Social Change or Continuity - Problems in Social and Cultural Futures.- 2. A sociological framework for Hypothetical Futures.- 3. The dynamics of social Change and Discontinuity.- 4. Emerging European Futures - The Basic Qualitative Dilemma.- Biographical Notes.