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GS-CF Module 1: City Futures

Rapid Urbanisation & Urban Transformation. Module 1 (Lessons 1-4) introduces you to rapid urbanisation and associated challenges: ghettoisation and the loss of agricultural land. The key drivers of “old urbanisation” were industrialisation and globalisation, both motivated by economic growth. The drivers of the new urbanism include sustainability, and the creativity to build cities that value people and planet over profit. We explore why ‘smart cities’ are not always high-tech; how ‘post-industrial’ design can rejuvenate the ghost towns of the industrial era; and the growth in eco-villages, and renewable energy cities. This Module supports UN SDG 2, 7, 11, 12, 15. On completion you will receive a Certificate of Completion (Global Socio-Cultural Futures Module 1: City Futures) from Global Futures Education. IMPORTANT NOTE: The full Course and the individual Modules are currently being offered as a BETA Testing Course at a heavily subsidised fee. The courses are complete but we would like participants who enrol to provide some brief feedback after completing the course. Please email with any questions. ask(a)globalfutureseducation.com WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? Enrol by clicking on 'Add to Cart'. At next page click "Make an Order". Complete your personal details and payment. Within 24 hours you will receive an access email. Follow the link shown on the email to access your Course. Register with your email and a password, and enjoy 90 days access.

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GS-CF Module 2: Human Futures

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Cultural Exclusion & Cultural Diversity. Module 2 (Lessons 5-8) explores the entrenched challenges of inequality in human culture, such as racism, gender inequality, and ageism including the rights of future generations. The dominant ideologies of neoliberalism and globalisation are explored for their links to secularism and religious fundamentalism, as well as loss of meaning. To counter these challenges, we examine cultural diversity and inclusion, and how to find meaning and purpose in life and work, through social entrepreneurship, purpose businesses, and impact investment such as ESG. This Module supports UN SDG 3, 5, 10, 17. On completion you will receive a Certificate of Completion (Global Socio-Cultural Futures Module 2: Human Futures) from Global Futures Education. IMPORTANT NOTE: The full Course and the individual Modules are currently being offered as a BETA Testing Course at a heavily subsidised fee. The courses are complete but we would like participants who enrol to provide some brief feedback after completing the course. Please email with any questions. ask(a)globalfutureseducation.com WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? Enrol by clicking on 'Add to Cart'. At next page click "Make an Order". Complete your personal details and payment. Within 24 hours you will receive an access email. Follow the link shown on the email to access your Course. Register with your email and a password, and enjoy 90 days access.

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GS-CF Module 3: Educational Futures

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Factory Schooling & Evolutionary Pedagogies. Module 3 (Lessons 9-12) explores 21st Century educational challenges beginning with poor access to education globally, particularly in Africa. We examine why the 19th Century factory model of schooling, developed to meet the needs of industrial expansion, is obsolete, and not capable of dealing with the complexity of global environmental, economic, and societal change. Solutions go beyond mere access to school, to dive deeply into the quality of education that best prepares young people for global uncertainty, accelerating change and unprecedented complexity. This Module supports UN SDG 4. On completion you will receive a Certificate of Completion (Global Socio-Cultural Futures Module 1: Educational Futures) from Global Futures Education. IMPORTANT NOTE: The full Course and the individual Modules are currently being offered as a BETA Testing Course at a heavily subsidised fee. The courses are complete but we would like participants who enrol to provide some brief feedback after completing the course. Please email with any questions. ask(a)globalfutureseducation.com WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? Enrol by clicking on 'Add to Cart'. At next page click "Make an Order". Complete your personal details and payment. Within 24 hours you will receive an access email. Follow the link shown on the email to access your Course. Register with your email and a password, and enjoy 90 days access.

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Full Course: Global Socio-Cultural Futures

$500

Welcome to "Global Socio-Cultural Futures”, the second Course in our series on Global Systems designed for individuals and organisations committed to facing global challenges and finding solutions. This self-paced, web-based Course is incredibly well researched to give you a deep understanding of our emerging world and provides a solid basis for you to build your personal, professional, and family futures. The innovative solutions offered align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Course Content includes 12 Lessons across 3 Modules: Urbanisation, Human Culture, and Education. There are two lessons in each, examining the challenges, and addressing the alternatives. The Full Course incorporates the three Modules. Alternatively you can buy the Modules individually. WHY YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE: > We will introduce you to accelerating global challenges such as rapid urbanisation and the social, cultural and environmental stresses created; entrenched socio-cultural challenges such as racism, gender inequality, ageism and loss of meaning; and why the factory model of schooling is obsolete and needs to be replaced. > By identifying, and unravelling the intertangled parts, we will help you to see how you can take action in some areas that will in turn influence interconnected parts of the system. > The course will empower you to search for, 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 a range of educational theories and practices that are creative, evolutionary, integral, and transformative. > This will provide a solid basis for you to build your personal, professional, family and community futures. > We will also indicate the alignment of these alternative solutions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). On completion you will receive a Certificate of Completion (Global Socio-Cultural Futures) from Global Futures Education. This Full Course incorporates Modules 1, 2 & 3, at a discounted fee. Alternatively you can buy the Modules individually. Allow around 3-4 hours to complete each Lesson. IMPORTANT NOTE: The full Course and the individual Modules are currently being offered as a BETA Testing Course at a heavily subsidised fee. The courses are complete but we would like participants who enrol to provide some brief feedback by way of a short survey after completing the course. Please email with any questions. ask(a)globalfutureseducation.com WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? Enrol by clicking on 'Add to Cart'. At next page click "Make an Order". Complete your personal details and payment. Within 24 hours you will receive an access email. Follow the link shown on the email to access your Course. Register with your email and a password, and enjoy 6 months access.