Towards The Learning Society Of The 21st Century

Author : Sungsup Ra,Shanti Jagannathan,Rupert Maclean
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811609831

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Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption by Sungsup Ra,Shanti Jagannathan,Rupert Maclean Pdf

This open access book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts from universities, governments, and industry leaders. The think pieces argue for a learning society as a major driver of change with far-reaching influence on learning to serve the needs of economies and societies. The book is a testimonial to the importance of ‘learning communities.’ It highlights the pivotal role that can be played by non-traditional actors such as city and urban planners, citizens, transport professionals, and technology companies. This collection seeks to contribute to the discourse on strengthening the fabric of a learning society crucial for future economic and social development, particularly in the aftermath of the coronavirus disease.

Author : Stewart Ranson
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009742839

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Towards the Learning Society by Stewart Ranson Pdf

Promotes a "learning society", which would create the conditions for motivation in the classroom. Ranson looks at the needs of education in a society undergoing great change, and argues that any education reform needs to build upon, and go beyond, the achievements of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004460386

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Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century by Anonim Pdf

Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century: Embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution explores responsive and innovative pedagogies arising from findings of research and practitioner experiences, globally. This book clarifies concepts and issues that surround teaching and learning for the 21st century.

Author : Bernie Trilling,Charles Fadel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118157060

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21st Century Skills by Bernie Trilling,Charles Fadel Pdf

This important resource introduces a framework for 21st Century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world. 21st Century content includes the basic core subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic-but also emphasizes global awareness, financial/economic literacy, and health issues. The skills fall into three categories: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills. This book is filled with vignettes, international examples, and classroom samples that help illustrate the framework and provide an exciting view of twenty-first century teaching and learning. Explores the three main categories of 21st Century Skills: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills Addresses timely issues such as the rapid advance of technology and increased economic competition Based on a framework developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) The book contains a video with clips of classroom teaching. For more information on the book visit www.21stcenturyskillsbook.com.

Author : Joseph E. Stiglitz,Bruce C. Greenwald
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231540629

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Creating a Learning Society by Joseph E. Stiglitz,Bruce C. Greenwald Pdf

“A superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D.”—Robert Kuttner, author of The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy Since its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It shows persuasively how enormous increases in our standard of living have been the result of learning how to learn, and it explains how advanced and developing countries alike can model a new learning economy on this example. Creating a Learning Society: Reader’s Edition uses accessible language to focus on the work’s central message and policy prescriptions. As the book makes clear, creating a learning society requires good governmental policy in trade, industry, intellectual property, and other important areas. The text’s central thesis—that every policy affects learning—is critical for governments unaware of the innovative ways they can propel their economies forward. “Profound and dazzling. In their new book, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald study the human wish to learn and our ability to learn and so uncover the processes that relate the institutions we devise and the accompanying processes that drive the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge . . . This is social science at its best.”—Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge “An impressive tour de force, from the theory of the firm all the way to long-term development, guided by the focus on knowledge and learning . . . This is an ambitious book with far-reaching policy implications.”—Giovanni Dosi, director, Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna “[A] sweeping work of macroeconomic theory.”—Harvard Business Review

Author : Guofang Wan,Dianne M. Gut
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400702684

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Bringing Schools into the 21st Century by Guofang Wan,Dianne M. Gut Pdf

Shift happens: Emerging technologies and globalization have resulted in political, social and cultural changes. These changes have a profound impact on all aspects of human life, including education. Yet while society has changed and continues to change, schools are slow to keep up. This book explores issues related to transforming and modernizing our educational systems, including the impact of societal shifts on education, the efforts at various levels to bring schools into the 21st century, the identification of 21st century skills, the reformation of the curriculum, the creation of alternative models of schooling, the innovative use of technology in education, and many others. It addresses questions like the following: Should schools systems adapt to better meet the needs of tomorrow’s world and how should this be accomplished? How can society better prepare students for a changing and challenging modern world? What skills do students need to lead successful lives and become productive citizens in the 21st century? How can educators create learning environments that are relevant and meaningful for digital natives? How can the school curriculum be made more rigorous to meet the needs of the 21st century? This book encourages readers to transcend the limits of their own educational experience, to think beyond familiar notions of schooling, instruction and curriculum, to consider how to best structure learning so that it will benefit future generations. It encourages a deeper analysis of the existing education system and offers practical insights into future directions focused on preparing students with 21st century skills.

Author : Baqer Mehdi
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Education
ISBN : 8185119341

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Towards a Learning Society by Baqer Mehdi Pdf

Issues relating to curriculum, teacher education, guidance, evaluation, education of the gifted, development of creative potential among school children, etc., should be clearly understood by the teacher. We talk today of a learning society. This implies that those who have been exposed to educational experience of some worth will continue to value learning and its outcome.

Author : Tassos Barkatsas,Adam Bertram
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463007610

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Global Learning in the 21st Century by Tassos Barkatsas,Adam Bertram Pdf

In this 21st century, technological and social changes have never been as rapid as before, and educative practices must evolve and innovate to keep up. What is being done by educators today to prepare future global citizens? What are the skills and competencies that will be required by our students? What changes in how we approach education might need to be made? This book presents a modern focus on some significant issues in teaching, learning, and research that are valuable in preparing students for the 21st century. The book discusses these issues in four sections. The first section presents contemporary, innovative curriculum and pedagogical practices that are relevant for the 21st century. This also includes how social networking has an integrated role within current educative practice. The next section then explores issues and current research around motivation and engagement, and how these are changing in this era of technological and social change. The third section presents debates around inclusion and social contexts, both global and local. Finally, the fourth section explores current discourses in regard to internationalisation and globalisation and how these are being considered in educational research. The book is an important representation of some of the work currently being done for these rapidly changing times. It will appeal to academics, researchers, teacher educators, educational administrators, teachers and anyone interested in preparing students for a modern and globally interconnected world.

Author : Prem Lata Sharma
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 8176256064

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Teaching and learning in 21st century by Prem Lata Sharma Pdf

Author : Weili Zhao,Daniel Tröhler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811630095

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Euro-Asian Encounters on 21st-Century Competency-Based Curriculum Reforms by Weili Zhao,Daniel Tröhler Pdf

This book offers a geographically unique cultural comparative lens to examine the issue of transnational curriculum knowledge (re)production. Prompted by the ongoing competency-based curriculum reforms on a global scale, this book examines where global frameworks like the OECD’s core competency definitions are rooted and how they are borrowed, resisted, and/or re-contextualized in various European states with a Christian, foremost Protestant educational–cultural heritage and Asian countries with a Confucian educational–cultural heritage. It highlights the roles that various factors, such as history, culture, religious attitudes, ideology, and state governance play in nation-states’ re-contextualization of global curriculum policies and practices beyond a simplistic and dualistic globalism/power and nationalism/resistance dynamic. In doing so, it provides a global context to better understand individual nation-state’s continuing curriculum reforms and school practices. At the same time, it situates individual nation-state’s latest curriculum reforms and practices within an international community for healthy dialogues and mutual sharing. By selecting two educational–cultural systems and wisdom—Christian-Protestant and Confucian—it also offers a springboard for international curriculum studies beyond the usual confinement of geopolitical nation-state constructs. It not only sheds new light on each nation-state’s curriculum policies and practices, but also creates new collaboration spaces within similar and across disparate cultural–educational regions. With its wide geopolitical and educational–cultural scope, this book appeals to a global market and can be used in a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative education, history of education, curriculum theory, school and society, and curriculum history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087908317

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Re-Reading Education Policies by Anonim Pdf

This book collects studies with a ‘critical education policy orientation’, and presents itself as a handbook of matters of public concern. The term ‘critical’ does not refer to the adoption of a particular theoretical framework or methodology, but rather it refers to a very specific ethos or way of relating to the present and the belief that the future should not be the repetition of the past. This implies a concern about what is happening in our societies today and what could or should be happening in the future. As a consequence, the contributors to the book rely on a general notion of public policy that takes on board processes, practices, and discourses at a variety of levels, in diverse governmental and non-governmental contexts, and considers the relation of policy to power, to politics and to social regulation. Following the detailed introduction that aims at picturing the landscape of studies with a ‘critical education policy orientation’, the book presents re-readings of six policy challenges; globalization, knowledge society, lifelong learning, equality/democracy/social inclusion, accountability/control/efficiency and teacher professionalism. It seeks to contextualise these in relation to issues of current global concern at the start of the 21st century. Despite the diversity of approaches, this collection of critical education policy studies shares a concern with what could be called ‘the public, and its education,’ and represents a snapshot of education policy research at a particular time.

Author : John Andrew Harrold, George Stuckey,America's 21st century National Road Scholars
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781457533600

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Learn or Die: 21st Century Community Learning by John Andrew Harrold, George Stuckey,America's 21st century National Road Scholars Pdf

There are prevailing paradoxes which must be resolved if we are to advance an educational system worthy of 21st century citizens. A paradox is an apparently contradictory statement which may be true however great the contradiction. Somehow, we have to resolve these contradictions if we are to move forward. “We assume that all can learn, but all do not learn at the same pace and in the same way. Yet, we want everyone to complete schooling at the same time or be judged a failure” (Indiana University Dean of Education, Howard Mehlinger, Retired). During the advent years of the July 4th 2026 Birthday Celebration of The Declaration of Independence, the paradoxes blocking our democratic institutions of learning have not been resolved. The Institute for 21st Century Learning has used in the preparation of LEARN OR DIE a community of national scholars, each having their own insights, yet the knowledge and skill attributes necessary for addressing today’s paradox barriers: Qualitative Action Research; The New Global Economy; The New Urbanism; The New University; Complex Systems Evaluation; 21st Century Leadership; Vision-Based Community Development; and Citizens’ Community Connections and the Transformation of Community Schools. Is the American Revolution still alive?

Author : Peter Jarvis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134217953

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From Adult Education to the Learning Society by Peter Jarvis Pdf

This unique text provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in adult education and lifelong learning. It includes more than twenty-five seminal articles from the first two decades of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, written by leading authors in the field from the UK, the USA, Australia and Europe. Compiled to show the development of the field, the articles are divided into four sections: From Ault Education... ...to Lifelong Education ...and Lifelong Learning ...to the Learning Society and Beyond. The specially written Introduction by the editor contextualises the selection and introduces readers to the main issues and current thinking in the field. This is the only text of its kind to demonstrate practice and policy internationally over this period, and as the collection of articles are now available in one easy-access place, this is an excellent resource for students and scholars.

Author : D. Bhaskara Rao
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 8171413897

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Education for the 21st Century by D. Bhaskara Rao Pdf

Contents: The International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century, chaired by Mr. Jacques Delors, proposed in his Report to UNESCO that building on the four pillars that are the foundations of education-learning to be, learning to know, learning to do, and learning to live together-all societies aim to move towards a necessary Utopia in which none of the talents hidden like buried treasure in every person are left untapped. This book, incorporating the views and contributions made to, for and about the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century, shall show a way to educationists, teachers and parents who lead the world into the 21st Century with great hope and courage for the prosperity of the mankind.

Author : Norman Longworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135724306

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Lifelong Learning in Action by Norman Longworth Pdf

Since the concept of lifelong learning came to prominence much excellent work has been undertaken but, as Professor Longworth's new book shows, major change in some areas is still needed if the concept of learning from cradle to grave is to become a true reality. Using his unique vantage point from consulting with schools, universities, local, governmental and global authorities, Professor Longworth brings the development of lifelong learning bang up-to-date with a complete survey of the principles of lifelong learning including examples from around the world and crucial information on the impact of lifelong learning on 21st century schools.