Utopianism and education: The legacy of Thomas More

At the beginning, with Thomas More, utopia sets out an agenda for the moder n world. Today, five hundred years later, what are the uses of utopia?' (Ku mar, 1991, p. 85). This paper provides an answer to this question by examin ing More's utopian 'method' which, it is suggested, offers a model way of t hinking imaginatively and prospectively about the form and content of socia l reform in general and educational change in particular.