Educating for the 21st Century Perspectives, Policies and Practices
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 pract
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ing for the 21st Century
Perspectives, Policies and Practices from Around the World
Educating for the 21st Century
Suzanne Choo • Deb Sawch Alison Villanueva • Ruth Vinz Editors
Educating for the 21st Century Perspectives, Policies and Practices from Around the World
Editors Suzanne Choo National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University Singapore, Singapore Alison Villanueva Ridgefield Public Schools Connecticut, USA
Deb Sawch Teachers College Columbia University New York, USA Ruth Vinz Teachers College Columbia University New York, USA
ISBN 978-981-10-1671-4 ISBN 978-981-10-1673-8 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-1673-8
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Preface
The impetus to trade, explore and even conquer new worlds has existed for thousands of years dating to the fifteenth century when Christopher Columbus discovered the new world in the Americas and Vasco da Gama established a sea route from Europe to the East. Sometime after the nineteenth century, the modern world economy developed and international trade, previously limited to products catered for elite classes, now expanded to include basic goods such as wheat and textiles for the masses. The world economy began to expand geographically to include more territories as the influence of the merchant capitalist class grew alongside stronger interstate relations. Today, the sense of international interaction, interconnectedness and interchange, encapsulated in the term “globalization”, has intensified more than any other century in human history. Indeed, the word “global” has become a cliché in our twenty-first century landscape in which companies increasingly apply global marketing strategies, financial institutions compete to prov
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