The Eight Basics (Longstreet & Shane, 1993)
The eight basics adopted from Longstreet and Shane (1993) are as follows:
(1) Planning of future curriculum is not to change the present;
(2) The future is a phenomenon subject to changes compared to the present;
(3) Mankind invents things today and also in the future based on what has been planned;
(4) Future curriculum planning is organized based on values and beliefs;
(5) The future curriculum begins in the present time. Therefore, the present is an important foundation for
future curriculum;
(6) The policy of future curriculum focuses on probabilities and impact or outcomes related to planning for
better future;
(7) As addition to each statistical and forecasting analysis, the study of future curriculum and other
rational study on forecasting development should be able to be formulized and measured;
(h) Humanity itself at present could form the criteria of better concept of the future.