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

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.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 LeaderlC+