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Summary:

"This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when they broaden curriculum goals, with attention to the details of implementation. To this end, the book examines system level reforms in six countries at various levels of development. The study includes system level reforms in jurisdictions where students achieve high levels in international assessments of basic literacies, such as Singapore and Ontario, Canada, as well as in nations where students achieve much lower levels, such as Kenya, Mexico, Punjab-Pakistan and Zimbabwe. The chapters examine system-level reforms that focus on strengthening the capacity to teach the basics, as in Ontario and Pakistan, as well as reforms that aim at building the capacity to teach a much broader set of competencies and skills, such as Kenya, Mexico, Singapore and Zimbabwe. The volume includes systems at very different levels of spending per student and reforms at various points in the cycle of policy implementation, some just starting, some struggling to survive a governmental transition, and others that have been in place for an extended period of time. From the comparative study of these reforms, we aim to provide an understanding of how to build the capacity of education systems to teach 21st century skills at scale in diverse settings"--Back cover.

Table of Contents:

• In search of a twenty-first century education renaissance after a global pandemic / Fernando M. Reimers
• Education reform in Ontario: Building capacity through collaboration / Taylor Boyd
• Singapore's Teacher Education Model for the 21st Century (TE21) / Durgesh Rajandiran
• 2013 Mexico's education reform: a multi-dimensional analysis / Paul Moch Islas, Anne K. Calef, and Cristina Aparico
• The Punjab schools reform roadmap: A medium-term evaluation / Rastee Chaudhry and Abdullah Waqar Tajwar
• Nurturing every learner's potential: Education reform in Kenya / Jel̦ena Fomiškina, Eve Woogen, Ama Peiris, Somaia Abdulrazzak, and Emma Cameron
• From content knowledge to competencies and exams to exit profiles: Education reform in Zimbabwe / Djénéba Gory, Jayanti Bhatia, and Venkatesh Reddy Mallapu Reddy
• Conclusions. Seven lessons to build an education renaissance after the pandemic / Fernando M. Reimers.

Contributors:

Reimers, Fernando , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Educational change — History — 21st century

Education — History — 21st century

Education — Developing countries

2000-2099

Education

Educational change

Developing countries

Genres:

History

General Notes:

"Open access"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

viii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

LB43 .I47 2021

ISBNs:

9783030570385 (hardbound)
303057038X (hardbound)
9783030570392 (eBook) [Invalid]
3030570398 (eBook) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1195522212