Eden’s Garden: A cultivator’s chronicle

This narrative imagines the future of education through three vignettes, each of which describes a community of learners exploring artifacts from the past even as they learn together in the present. Scenarios trace the experiences of Eden, who was born in 2012, and her involvement with learning and educational institutions. Threaded through vignettes are clues about what is valued and how what is valued is created and measured—all of which relate directly to the influence of policy in shaping society. By focusing on the experiences of participants at three points in time, narratives explore how society might evolve toward the preferable, toward ecologies that nourish and sustain life—and lifelong learning.