Educación 3.0
Subtitle: the struggle for talent in Latin America
By: Gabriel Sánchez Zinny, James McBride
Contributors: McBride, James E., author
Publisher: Books & Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bogotá, Colombia]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9789588837239
Subjects: Education; Educational innovations; Education and globalization; Economic aspects
Description: With the shifting nature of the global economy, education quality is more important than ever. Both personal success and national competitiveness increasingly depend on what is known as "21st century skills" -- skills that qualify workers for success in higher value added industries and position them to be entrepreneurs and innovators. Much as the industrial revolution necessitated a paradigm shift in education in order to train a modern workforce, the changes wrought by technology anad globalization require that we rethink how we educate our citizens. Educación 3.0 is an attempt to address this need for educational transformation in both the US and Latin America. Presented within are the stories of educators, innovators, and entrepreneurs who are pushing the envelope in their respective fields. Hispanics in the US and across Latin America face similar challenges. In the US, Hispanics, like other minorities, struggle with a stubborn "achievement gap" at the same time that their numbers and influence on the national economy has grown to unprecedented levels. And Latin American educational performance trails behind international averages at the same time that a decade of robust growth has created a burgeoning middle class that is demanding better schools and more opportunity. That is why education innovators matter now more than ever. Their stories can help influence and inspire the next generation of reformers to get involved in improving education from the bottom up.--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes endnotes (pages 273-299)
Table of contents: title: Foreword: Harnessing educational innovation; title: The scope of the education challenge in the Americas; title: Do entrepreneurs and the private sector have a role in the education system?; title: The implications of new technologies for education equality; title: Why isn't human capital a foreign policy issue?; title: Conclusion: The conversation we need.