Educating for the 21st Century [electronic resource] : Perspectives, Policies and Practices from Around the World /
Choo, Suzanne.editor.
Sawch, Deb.editor.
Villanueva, Alison.editor.
Vinz, Ruth.editor.
All over the world, governments, policymakers, and educators are advocating the need to educate students for the 21st first century. This book provides insights into what this means and the ways 21st century education is theorized and implemented in practice. The first part, “Perspectives: Mapping our futures-in-the-making,” uncovers the contradictions, tensions and processes that shape 21st century education discourses. The second part, “Policies: Constructing the future through policymaking,” discusses how 21st century education is translated into policies and the resulting tensions that emerge from top-down, state sanctioned policies and bottom-up initiatives. The third part, “Practices: Enacting the Future in Local Contexts,” discusses on-the-ground initiatives that schools in various countries around the world enact to educate their students for the 21st century. This volume includes contributions from leading scholars in the field as well as educators from schools and those working with schools.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
Part I Perspectives: Mapping Our Futures-In-The-Making -- Chapter 1 Today's Children, Tomorrow's Creatives: Living, Learning and Earning in the Conceptual Age -- Chapter 2 Digitalizing Tradition: Staging Postcolonial Elite School Identities in the Online Environment -- Chapter 3 "Players in the World": Action for Intercultural Competence in Classroom Pedagogy -- Chapter 4 Deliberating Values for Global Citizenship: A Study of Singapore's Social Studies and Hong Kong's Liberal Studies Curricula -- Chapter 5 Signature Pedagogies in Global Competence Education: Understanding Quality Teaching Practice -- Chapter 6 Voices from the Field: What can we learn from Leaders of Diverse schools in Ontario Canada, Tensions and Possibilities? -- Chapter 7 Education for a Better World: The Struggle for Social Justice in the 21st Century -- Part II Policies: Constructing the Future through Policymaking -- Chapter 8 Global Leadership Training for Higher School Students in Japan: Are Global Leadership Competencies Trainable, Universal, and Measurable? -- Chapter 9 Exploring Top-down and Bottom-up Cosmopolitan Traces in Schools on the West Coast of the United States -- Chapter 10 Exploring the Transformative Potential of a Global Education Framework: A Case-study of a School District in the United States -- Chapter 11 For Whom is K-12 Education: A Critical Look into Twenty-first Century Educational Policy and Curriculum in the Philippines -- Chapter 12 Preparing Students for the 21st Century: A Snapshot of Singapore's Approach -- Chapter 13 Towards 21st Century Education: Success Factors, Challenges and Renewal of Finnish Education -- Chapter 14 Imagining the Cosmopolitan Global Citizen? Parents' Choice of International Schools in Kuwait -- Chapter 15 Being a 'Good Cuban': Socialist Citizenship Education in a Globalized Context -- Part III Practices: Enacting the Future in Local Contexts -- Chapter 16 Teaching Global Citizenship Education with Empathy Model and Experiential Learning: Case Study of Action Research on Developing Empathy in a Hong Kong Secondary School -- Chapter 17 Reimagine Lakeshore: A School Division Change Initiative for the 21st Century -- Chapter 18 A Case Study of Curriculum Innovation for Global Capacities: One Response to the Call of the 21st Century -- Chapter 19 MEDIAtion: Flexible literacy terms, communication and 'viral' learning in 9-12 classrooms -- Chapter 20 Prototype for a 21st Century Class: A School-wide Initiative to Engage the Digital Native -- Chapter 21 Preparing Students for a New Global Age: Perspectives from a Pioneer 'Future School' in Singapore -- Chapter 22 Problematizing 'Global Citizenship' in an International School -- Chapter 23 Being Open to the Other: K-12 Teachers' Multimodal Reflections on Hong Kong Curricula -- Chapter 24 A New Wave of Learning: Get Started with Innovation!.
All over the world, governments, policymakers, and educators are advocating the need to educate students for the 21st first century. This book provides insights into what this means and the ways 21st century education is theorized and implemented in practice. The first part, “Perspectives: Mapping our futures-in-the-making,” uncovers the contradictions, tensions and processes that shape 21st century education discourses. The second part, “Policies: Constructing the future through policymaking,” discusses how 21st century education is translated into policies and the resulting tensions that emerge from top-down, state sanctioned policies and bottom-up initiatives. The third part, “Practices: Enacting the Future in Local Contexts,” discusses on-the-ground initiatives that schools in various countries around the world enact to educate their students for the 21st century. This volume includes contributions from leading scholars in the field as well as educators from schools and those working with schools.
International education .
Comparative education.
International and Comparative Education.