Four-dimensional education
Subtitle: the competencies learners need to succeed
By: Charles Fadel, Maya Bialik, and Bernie Trilling ; prologue by Andreas Schleicher
Contributors: Bialik, Maya, author; Trilling, Bernie, author
Publisher: Center for Curriculum Redesign
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781518642562
Subjects: Educational change; Educational planning; Education; Aims and objectives; Politique de l'éducation; Systèmes d'enseignement; Psychologie de l'éducation; Innovations pédagogiques; Acquisition de connaissances; Wandel; Bildungspolitik; Schulpolitik; Bildung
Description: The foundational reason for why we find it so difficult to rebuild school curricula around the needs of the modern world is that we lack an organizing framework that can help prioritise educational competencies, and systematically structure the conversation around what individuals should learn at various stages of their development. Four-dimensional education provides a clear and actionable first-of-its-kind organizing framework of competencies needed for this century. Its main innovation lies in not presenting yet another one-size-fits-all list of what individuals should learn, but in crisply defining the spaces in which educators, curriculum planners, policymakers and learners can establish what should be learned, in their context and for their future.
Notes: Subtitle from front cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Why Rethinking the What of Education Matters So Much; title: Introduction; title: 1. Redesigning Education for a Transforming World; title: 2. Education Goals for the Twenty-First Century; title: 3. The Knowledge Dimension; title: 4. The Skills Dimension; title: 5. The Character Dimension; title: 6. Meta-Learning Dimension; title: 7. Briefly Touching on the How; title: 8. Concluding Thoughts; title: Appendix.