The Future of Compulsory Schooling: Participant developed scenarios from a Modified Delphi Survey

<p>This paper describes results from a modified Delphi process that has been informed by research into anticipatory systems to design an approach that is responsive to a future world which is uncertain and in rapid change. We present five scenarios that describe preferred futures for the design of compulsory schooling and addresses the overall, counterfactual, research question, &ldquo;What if compulsory schooling was a 21st century invention?&rdquo; The scenarios have been developed by participants as the last round in the modified Delphi process, utilising a set of statements created in the earlier rounds. This scenario development round describes a novel use of the modified Delphi process in addition to the previous rounds that were used to determine more traditional Delphi results in terms of consensus and dissensus.&nbsp;</p> <p>The attachments&nbsp;provide an annexure with additional information about the Expert panel as well as&nbsp;a complete list of statements from the modified Delphi process.</p>