Teachers and time: histories and futures in education

There is much rhetoric in education about the ways in which students are prepared for 'the future'. There is a great deal more certainty and direction about the teaching of history. I argue through my research that Australian curriculum is temporally biased towards the past, and in order to develop multidimensional citizenship, greater attention must be paid to the development of temporality, with a specific focus on futures. This paper focuses on the ways teachers talk about notions of time in order to develop futures-based curriculum.