Full Description
This volume provides an overview of the themes and challenges in curriculum thinking and practice that currently engage policymakers and practitioners across the East Asian and Southeast Asian region. It addresses issues of policy development and implementation, and considers the notion of transversal in a broader sense, including whether the implementation of non-academic concepts can indeed traverse disciplinary, cultural and contextual boundaries.
Consisting mainly of contributions by authors from ASEAN and neighboring countries, the volume reflects a distinctly regional perspective and provides a view of national and smaller-scale initiatives, as well as chapters setting these initiatives in an international context. It touches on policy and curriculum development, teaching and learning materials, teacher development, and skills assessment, thereby implicating broad definitional issues as well as specific implementational aspects.
Contents
Re-thinking 21st century skills.- Twenty-first century skills: Aspirations, planning, and implementation.- Socio-cultural differences in creativity and critical thinking: An epistemological diversity?.- Developing and fostering students' 21st century and social-emotional competencies: The Singapore journey.- Competence-based reforms and disciplinary content: Some lessons from Europe and the Americas.- Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and student ESD competencies: Based on the results of a survey conducted in Yokohama City, Japan.- Assessing 21st century skills: The Philippine experience.- Transversal skills: The Malaysian 21st century learning approach.- Teaching and learning transversal competencies in Vietnam: Policy, curriculum, textbooks, and implementation.- Transversal competencies in Vietnam's curricular reforms: Teachers' meanings.- Empowering students through Social and Emotional Learning: A decade of experience in China.- Artificial intelligence for 21st-century competencies: Critical reflections from South Korea.-Concluding reflections: What needs to be done?.
