it emphasises the centrality of knowledge and learning and aims to promote inclusion coherence and flexibility in educational practice it also stresses the importance of adaptability audacity and raising awareness of environmental sustainability issues as critical to a st century educational approach this includes the expectation that the citizen develop critical thinking selfawareness autonomy and responsibility individuals should be able to cope with uncertainty in a fastchanging world to use the skills they have developed to continue lifelong learning and should respect the fundamental principles of democratic society and the rights guarantees and freedoms on which it is based these include responsibility and integrity excellence and high standards curiosity reflection and innovation citizenship and participation and freedom these include the use of languages and texts information and communication reasoning and problem solving critical and creative thinking interpersonal relations autonomy and personal development wellbeing health and environment aesthetic and artistic sensitivityawareness scientific technical and technological knowledge and body awareness and mastery