EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

There are many challenges and uncertainties regarding the future of Education as a scholarly and professional field, as well as the future shape and influence of educational work wherever it occurs. These uncertainties range from broader social, economic, political and environmental issues to the more immediate problems of workforce planning. In the face of such challenges and uncertainties, questions of how to think about the future, and commit to a process of examining conceivable futures, become major foci for Education research, as well as for research development and capacity building. The Education Research Futures Summit was a national joint venture of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) and the Australian Council of Deans of Education (ACDE). The purpose of the Summit was to contribute to a capacity of the Education field to analyse