Exploring the Prospects of Future School Knowledge in the Socio-Cultural Field

Purpose: This study was conducted for the purpose of predicting future changes in the socio-culturalfield and exploring the direction of future school knowledge based on this. Methods: As future megatrends in the socio-cultural field, ‘changes in demographics and families’,‘increasing social disparities and inequality’, ‘intelligence/networking’, and ‘changes in values’ werederived. In order to draw the aspects and characteristics of future school knowledge for each megatrend,a Delphi survey was conducted twice with 15 experts in the socio-cultural field. Results: As a result of the Delphi survey, it is predicted that the composition of future school knowledgewill be formed between the following two axes in the social and cultural field. One axis is theunderstanding of human nature and human life, which does not change easily. The other axis is theexpectation of predicting the impact of changes in the times and environment on human life, adaptingto such changes, and creating changes to realize a better human life. Conclusion: In the future school knowledge, a phenomenal understanding, which was emphasized byconventional school knowledge, will still form an important axis. However, as well as such phenomenalunderstanding, the discovery and preparation of problems expected in future environmental changes,the devising and practice of solutions to those problems, and the values, attitudes and ethics thatgive direction and consistency to such practices, is expected to be emphasized significantly more thanit is now.