Overview
- Examines the skills young people will need to work and live in a global society
- Moves away from more abstract concepts such as team work, critical thinking and problem solving
- Constructs a framework for global skills with examples from policies and evidence from educational programmes
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Globalisation and Skills
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Debates and Conceptualisations on Global Skills
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Global Skills for Global Professions
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Global Skills for Social and Sustainable Change
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“As someone who works in a widening participation university with collaborative partners across the world, I am interested in equipping all students with global skills to effect global social change, not just pay lip service to marketable skills on paper. Professor Bourn’s readable but scholarly book inspires me to challenge my own perception of what constitutes a 21st century skills agenda, so that I can apply this to curriculum design and partnership operation; my students will have a better chance of being skilled, critical and transformative.” (Claire Aindow, Academic Co-ordinator - Standards, Enhancement and the Learner Experience, University of Bolton, UK)
“This book is a successful attempt to systemise various approaches to definition and classification of the one of the most demanded and valuable skills, so called 21st century skills. This book also specifies differences and similarities between often substituted and confused terms such as soft skills, employability skills, global skills and 21st century skills. What I found especially valuable from practical point of view is that the author goes even beyond generic examples of those skills and gives suggestions on what are those skills in four professional areas: teaching, engineering, medicine and business.” (Dr. Miroslava Dmitrieva, German Chancellor Fellow for Prospective Leaders)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Global Skills for 21st Century Professions
Authors: Douglas Bourn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97655-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97654-9Published: 06 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07385-5Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97655-6Published: 24 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 305
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Personal Development