This article is the result of a theoretical exercise constructed in the realm of the author's research objectives. It sets to reveal some of the approximations between the disciplines and fields of curriculum and prospection. It is based on the hypothesis that they have common objects, in which they discuss trajectories, formative projects, teleologicity, the future, gambles, etc. To sustain his hypothesis, the author assumes that the educational and curricular policies of capitalist society have been converted into a strong strategic instrument that is generally focused on two broad objectives: meeting demands of the present and anticipating facts that carry the future, seeking to achieve desired medium- to long-term scenarios. In this sense, curriculum and prospection meet to the degree in which both work with the idea of a telos, that is, in "gambles" about the construction of possible futures. To evince elements that illustrate the approximation of the referred disciplines/fields, some current educational and curriculum policies are presented highlighting, above all, the references that indicate the presence of elements of prospection.
curriculum; prospection; future; politics