Educating for the 21st century : perspectives, policies and practices from around the world /: perspectives, policies and practices from around the world. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Suzanne Choo, Deb Sawch, Alison Villanueva, Ruth Vinz, editors.
• Editors: Choo, Suzanne S; Sawch, Deb; Villanueva, Alison; Vinz, Ruth
• Contents: Part I Perspectives: Mapping Our Futures-In-The-Making -- Chapter 1 Today's Children, Tomorrow's Creatives: Living, Learning and Earning in the Conceptual Age -- Chapter 2 Digitalizing Tradition: Staging Postcolonial Elite School Identities in the Online Environment -- Chapter 3 "Players in the World": Action for Intercultural Competence in Classroom Pedagogy -- Chapter 4 Deliberating Values for Global Citizenship: A Study of Singapore's Social Studies and Hong Kong's Liberal Studies Curricula -- Chapter 5 Signature Pedagogies in Global Competence Education: Understanding Quality Teaching Practice -- Chapter 6 Voices from the Field: What can we learn from Leaders of Diverse schools in Ontario Canada, Tensions and Possibilities? -- Chapter 7 Education for a Better World: The Struggle for Social Justice in the 21st Century -- Part II Policies: Constructing the Future through Policymaking -- Chapter 8 Global Leadership Training for Higher School Students in Japan: Are Global Leadership Competencies Trainable, Universal, and Measurable? -- Chapter 9 Exploring Top-down and Bottom-up Cosmopolitan Traces in Schools on the West Coast of the United States -- Chapter 10 Exploring the Transformative Potential of a Global Education Framework: A Case-study of a School District in the United States -- Chapter 11 For Whom is K-12 Education: A Critical Look into Twenty-first Century Educational Policy and Curriculum in the Philippines -- Chapter 12 Preparing Students for the 21st Century: A Snapshot of Singapore's Approach -- Chapter 13 Towards 21st Century Education: Success Factors, Challenges and Renewal of Finnish Education -- Chapter 14 Imagining the Cosmopolitan Global Citizen? Parents' Choice of International Schools in Kuwait -- Chapter 15 Being a 'Good Cuban': Socialist Citizenship Education in a Globalized Context -- Part III Practices: Enacting the Future in Local Contexts -- Chapter 16 Teaching Global Citizenship Education with Empathy Model and Experiential Learning: Case Study of Action Research on Developing Empathy in a Hong Kong Secondary School -- Chapter 17 Reimagine Lakeshore: A School Division Change Initiative for the 21st Century -- Chapter 18 A Case Study of Curriculum Innovation for Global Capacities: One Response to the Call of the 21st Century -- Chapter 19 MEDIAtion: Flexible literacy terms, communication and 'viral' learning in 9-12 classrooms -- Chapter 20 Prototype for a 21st Century Class: A School-wide Initiative to Engage the Digital Native -- Chapter 21 Preparing Students for a New Global Age: Perspectives from a Pioneer 'Future School' in Singapore -- Chapter 22 Problematizing 'Global Citizenship' in an International School -- Chapter 23 Being Open to the Other: K-12 Teachers' Multimodal Reflections on Hong Kong Curricula -- Chapter 24 A New Wave of Learning: Get Started with Innovation!
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 370; Education; Education and state; Educational planning; Education -- Forecasting; Comparative education; EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions; Comparative education; Education and state; Education -- Forecasting; Educational planning; Education -- Comparative; Education; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811016738; 9811016739
• Related ISBNs: 9789811016714; 9811016712
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 26, 2016).
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