Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century: Educational Goals, Policies, and Curricula from Six Nations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1612509223 ISBN 13: 9781612509228

Publisher: Harvard Education Press, 2016

Synopsis

This book describes how different nations have defined the core competencies and skills that young people will need in order to thrive in the twenty-first-century, and how those nations have fashioned educational policies and curricula meant to promote those skills. The book examines six countries—Chile, China, India, Mexico, Singapore, and the United States—exploring how each one defines, supports, and cultivates those competencies that students will need in order to succeed in the current century.

Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century appears at a time of heightened attention to comparative studies of national education systems, and to international student assessments such as those that have come out of PISA (the Program for International Student Assessment), led by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This book’s crucial contribution to the burgeoning field of international education arises out of its special attention to first principles—and thus to first questions: As Reimers and Chung explain, “much can be gained by an explicit investigation of the intended purposes of education, in what they attempt to teach students, and in the related questions of why those purposes and how they are achieved.”

These questions are crucial to education practice and reform at a time when educators (and the students they serve) face unique, pressing challenges. The book’s detailed attention to such questions signals its indispensable value for policy makers, scholars, and education leaders today.

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From the Back Cover

Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century examines how six countries—Chile, China, India, Mexico, Singapore, and the United States—define, support, and cultivate the core competencies that students will need in order to succeed in the current century. The fruition of a collaborative research project at the Global Education Innovation Initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), the book’s crucial contribution to the burgeoning field of international education arises out of its special attention to first principles—and thus to first questions:  As Reimers and Chung explain, “much can be gained by an explicit investigation of the intended purposes of education, in what they attempt to teach students, and in the related questions of why those purposes and how they are achieved.”

“What should be the goals of education in the twenty-first century? By surveying the ways that six nations have sought to identify and develop the competencies necessary for success, this volume offers a thoughtful, grounded, and provocative response to that essential question. It serves as an indispensable resource for all those working to provide a relevant and high-quality education to children around the globe.”
—James E. Ryan, dean and Charles William Eliot Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
 
“If education policy makers around the world do one thing in the next twelve months, it should be to read this book! Reimers and Chung have provided a welcome dose of reality into the conversation about how to prepare our students for the challenges of the twenty-first century.”
—Ken Kay, CEO, EdLeader21
 
“What Reimers and Chung have done is unparalleled: a comparative study of how education systems have approached the challenge of twenty-first-century competencies. The result will be invaluable to the global education community in thinking about how to prepare learners for a complex and ever-changing world.”
—Gwang-Jo Kim, director, UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education

Fernando M. Reimers is Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education and director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and the International Education Policy Program at HGSE. Connie K. Chung is research director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative.

About the Author

Fernando M. Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education and the director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and the International Education Policy Program at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Connie K. Chung is the research director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative at HGSE.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Education Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1612509223
• ISBN 13: 9781612509228
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Reimers Fernando M., Chung Connie K.