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

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