Untangling Teachers ’ Images of Their Futures Through Their Responses to the Futures Narratives of Children

A significant amount of research has been undertaken exploring individuals ’ images of a future. What often remains uninterrogated are the ways in which others ’ respond to these images of a future, as they are articulated through narrative discourses. This paper, then, seeks to address this void through the presentation of research which considers the ways that teachers ’ perceptions of "the future " are consolidated and challenged, as they work with children in a classroom setting