Audacious Education Purposes
How Governments Transform the Goals of Education Systems
Editors: Reimers, Fernando M. (Ed.)
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- Offers original and important insights on how countries change schools
- Analyses comprehensive national education reforms in eight different countries
- Traces the roots of current efforts to make education relevant
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- About this book
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This open access book offers a comparative study of eight ambitious national reforms that sought to create opportunities for students to gain the necessary breath of skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world. It examines how national governments transform education systems to provide students opportunities to develop such skills. It analyses comprehensive education reforms in Brazil, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Portugal and Russia and yields original and important insights on the process of educational change. The analysis of these 21st century skills reforms shows that reformers followed approaches which are based on the five perspectives: cultural, psychological, professional, institutional and political. Most reforms relied on institutional and political perspectives. They highlight the systemic nature of the process of educational change, and the need for alignment and coherence among the various elements of the system in order. They underscore the importance of addressing the interests of various stakeholders of the education system in obtaining the necessary impetus to initiate and sustain change. In contrast, as the book shows, the use of a cultural and psychological frame proved rarer, missing important opportunities to draw on systematic analysis of emerging demands for schools and on cognitive science to inform the changes in the organization of instruction. Drawing on a rich array of sources and evidence the book provides a careful account of how education reform works in practice.
- About the authors
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Fernando M. Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education and Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and of the International Education Policy Masters Program at Harvard University. An expert in the field of Global Education, his research and teaching focus on understanding how to educate children and youth so they can thrive in the 21st century. He is a member of UNESCO’s high level commission on the Futures of Education.
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- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Thinking Multidimensionally About Ambitious Educational Change
Pages 1-46
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Curriculum Reform in Brazil to Develop Skills for the Twenty-First Century
Pages 47-64
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Curriculum and Teacher Education Reforms in Finland That Support the Development of Competences for the Twenty-First Century
Pages 65-80
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Japanese Education Reform Towards Twenty-First Century Education
Pages 81-103
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Education Truly Matters: Key Lessons from Mexico’s Educational Reform for Educating the Whole Child
Pages 105-151
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Audacious Education Purposes
- Book Subtitle
- How Governments Transform the Goals of Education Systems
- Editors
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- Fernando M. Reimers
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-41882-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-41882-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-41881-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 250
- Number of Illustrations
- 18 b/w illustrations
- Topics
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