Richard Slaughter
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Dr Richard Slaughter | |
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| Born | Richard Slaughter Late 1940 London, London |
| Occupation | Professor/author |
| Nationality | England |
| Education | Lancaster University, PhD. futures studies,1982 |
| Subject | Futures studies, journalism, Integral perspective, social innovation |
| Literary movement | Futures studies |
| Notable works | Director at Foresight International Foundation professor at Foresight International published 20 books on futures studies |
| Spouse | Jill |
| Website | |
| http://authors-unlimited.org/author/richard-slaughter | |
Richard Slaughter (born late 1940s, England) is a co-director of Foresight International, a preeminent scholar in the field of Futures Studies and applied foresight, and a prolific author with over 20 books to his name specialising in Future Studies, Integral perspectives and social innovation. Slaughter has also guest edited a number of journals including:Futures,Foresight,Future research quarterly and World studies journals.He is widely known for his work in four areas:
- developing the theory and practice of futures in education;
- leading the transition from empirical to critical futures work;
- bringing Integral theory into futures; hence Integral Futures; and,
- working with others to stimulate effective responses to the ‘global emergency’ created, in part, by the confluence of peak oil and global warming.
Life and Work
Richard Slaughter was born and raised in an unassuming household in Southsea, Portsmouth, by his mother Margaret, who was a homemaker and devout Christian, and his father Norman, a hard-working blue-collar man. Slaughter's upbringing was characterised the moral teachings of his mother's church and with his parents' efforts to broaden their son's horizons by providing him with a variety of experiences. Both parents had lived through the Second World War, and felt it necessary for their child to understand the nature of human conflict, through literature and film. Partly for this reason Slaughter developed a deep love of reading at an early age.
Slaughter's first steps towards a career in Futures Studies began with his delight in the long- running dan dare series in the British boy’s comic,the eagle During the late 1950s and early 1960s the lead artist, Frank Hampson, depicted a future world that was, on the whole, bright and optimistic. The fascination with futuristic fiction continued into Slaughter's teenage years, whereupon he was confronted by the prevalence
Selected works
- Birds in Bermuda. Bermuda Bookstores Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda: ix + 158pp (1975) With photographs by the author.
- Recovering the Future. Grad. School of Environ. Science, Monash University, Melbourne: iv + 189 pp (1988) ISBN 0-86746-667-7
- Studying the Future, Bicentennial Futures Education Project. Commission For the Future, Melbourne: xiv + 82 pp (1989) ISBN 0-642-14281-5
References
External links
- Foresight International
- Jose Ramos, From Critique to Cultural Recovery AFI, 2003.