Educating for the 21st Century : Perspectives, Policies and Practices From Around the World

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Front Matter....Pages 1-5 Today’s Children, Tomorrow’s Creatives: Living, Learning and Earning in the Conceptual Age....Pages 7-23 Digitalizing Tradition: Staging Postcolonial Elite School Identities in the Online Environment....Pages 25-46 “Players in the World”: Action for Intercultural Competence in Classroom Pedagogy....Pages 47-71 Deliberating Values for Global Citizenship: A Study of Singapore’s Social Studies and Hong Kong’s Liberal Studies Curricula....Pages 73-92 Signature Pedagogies in Global Competence Education: Understanding Quality Teaching Practice....Pages 93-115 Voices from the Field: What Can We Learn from Leaders of Diverse Schools in Ontario Canada, Tensions and Possibilities?....Pages 117-129 Education for a Better World: The Struggle for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 131-145 Front Matter....Pages 147-151 Global Leadership Training for High School Students in Japan: Are Global Leadership Competencies Trainable, Universal, and Measurable?....Pages 153-170 Exploring Top-Down and Bottom-Up Cosmopolitan Traces in Schools on the West Coast of the United States....Pages 171-185 Exploring the Transformative Potential of a Global Education Framework: A Case-Study of a School District in the United States....Pages 187-205 For Whom Is K-12 Education: A Critical Look into Twenty-First Century Educational Policy and Curriculum in the Philippines....Pages 207-223 Preparing Students for the Twenty-First Century: A Snapshot of Singapore’s Approach....Pages 225-241 Towards Twenty-First Century Education: Success Factors, Challenges, and the Renewal of Finnish Education....Pages 243-264 Imagining the Cosmopolitan Global Citizen? Parents’ Choice of International Schools in Kuwait....Pages 265-279 Towards Being a “Good Cuban”: Socialist Citizenship Education in a Globalized Context....Pages 281-296 Front Matter....Pages 297-301 Teaching Global Citizenship Education with Empathy Model and Experiential Learning: Case Study of Action Research on Developing Empathy in a Hong Kong Secondary School....Pages 303-325 Reimagine Lakeshore: A School Division Change Initiative for the Twenty-First Century....Pages 327-342 A Case Study of Curriculum Innovation for Global Capacities: One Response to the Call of the Twenty-First Century....Pages 343-359 MEDIAtion: Flexible Literacy Terms, Communication and “Viral” Learning in 9–12 Classrooms....Pages 361-374 A Prototype Twenty-First Century Class: A School-Wide Initiative to Engage the Digital Native....Pages 375-388 Front Matter....Pages 297-301 Preparing Students for a New Global Age: Perspectives from a Pioneer ‘Future School’ in Singapore....Pages 389-404 Problematizing ‘Global Citizenship’ in an International School....Pages 405-424 Being Open to the Other: K-12 Teachers’ Multimodal Reflections on Hong Kong Curricula....Pages 425-445 A New Wave of Learning in Finland: Get Started with Innovation!....Pages 447-467 Back Matter....Pages 469-490