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Audacious Education Purposes: How Governments Transform the Goals of Education Systems Year of publication: 2020 Author: Fernando Reimers 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. 
A Framework to Guide an Education Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020 Year of publication: 2020 Author: Fernando Reimers | Andreas Schleicher Corporate author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) This report aims at supporting education decision making to develop and implement effective education responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The report explains why the necessary social isolation measures will disrupt school-based education for several months in most countries around the world. Absent an intentional and effective strategy to protect opportunity to learn during this period, this disruption will cause severe learning losses for students.The report proposes that leaders of education systems and organizations develop plans for the continuation of education through alternate modalities, during the period of necessary social isolation. It offers a framework of areas to be covered by such plans. Un cadre pour guider une réponse éducative à la Covid-19 en cas de pandémie de 2020 Year of publication: 2020 Author: Fernando Reimers | Andreas Schleicher Corporate author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Ce rapport vise à appuyer la décision de l'éducation faisant de développer et mettre en œuvre des réponses éducatives efficaces au Covid-19 en cas de pandémie. Le rapport explique pourquoi les mesures d'isolement social nécessaires perturberont l'éducation en milieu scolaire pendant plusieurs mois dans la plupart des pays à travers le monde. En l'absence d'une stratégie délibérée et efficace pour protéger l'occasion d'apprendre au cours de cette période, cette perturbation entraîne des pertes sévères d'apprentissage pour les étudiants.Le rapport propose que les dirigeants des systèmes d'éducation et les organisations à élaborer des plans pour la poursuite de l'éducation des modalités alternatives, au cours de la période d'isolement social nécessaire. Il offre un cadre de zones à couvrir par ces plans. 
Educating Students to Improve the World (SpringerBriefs in Education) Year of publication: 2020 Author: Fernando Reimers This open access book addresses how to help students find purpose in a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of the field of global education Fernando Reimers explains how to lead the transformation of schools and school systems in order to more effectively prepare students to address today’s’ most urgent challenges and to invent a better future. It discusses several global citizenship curricula that have been adopted by schools and school networks, and ties them into an approach to lead school change into the uncharted territory of the future. Given its scope, the book will help teachers, school and district leaders tackle the change management needed in order to introduce global education, and more generally increase the relevancy of education. In addition, the book offers a “bridge” for more productive collaboration and communication between those who lead the process of educational change, and those who study and theorize this important work. 
COVID-19 Crisis and Curriculum: Sustaining Quality Outcomes in the Context of Remote Learning (Issue Note no. 4.2 – April 2020) Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the lives of large numbers of learners, teachers and parents around the world, with millions now teaching and learning from home. While this is first and foremost a health crisis, it will likely have significant long-term effects on education, including on curriculum and learning. The situation, however, could become an opportunity to rethink curriculum, teaching-learning-assessment processes and the development of learners’ competencies with a view to strengthening their learning skills and sustaining their motivation.This crisis will likely provide an opportunity for schools to strengthen their ties with families, and for teachers to communicate and cooperate better with parents in the interest of learners. In the same vein, the crisis means teachers and parents may become more involved in decisions regarding curriculum appropriateness. This can support the development of a learner-centred, participative and inclusive learning paradigm that takes into account the interests of learners, as well as their environments and aspirations. Crisis y currículo durante el COVID-19: mantención de los resultados de calidad en el contexto del aprendizaje remoto (Nota temática No. 4.2 – Abril 2020) Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO La pandemia del COVID-19 ha cambiado la vida de una gran cantidad de estudiantes, docentes, padres y madres a lo largo del mundo y millones actualmente enseñan y aprenden desde sus hogares. Aunque se trata principalmente de una crisis sanitaria, es probable que tenga importantes secuelas a largo plazo en la educación, incluso en el currículo y el aprendizaje. No obstante, la situación puede transformarse en una oportunidad para reexaminar el currículo, los procesos de evaluación de la enseñanza y del aprendizaje y el desarrollo de las competencias de las y los estudiantes, en vista de fortalecer sus habilidades de aprendizaje y mantener su motivación.Es probable que la crisis ofrezca una oportunidad para que las escuelas fortalezcan sus vínculos con las familias y para que las y los docentes se comuniquen y cooperen mejor con los padres y las madres en beneficio de las y los estudiantes. En la misma línea, la crisis significa que docentes, madres y padres podrían participar más en las decisiones respecto de la idoneidad del currículo. Esto puede servir como apoyo al paradigma de aprendizaje inclusivo, participativo y centrado en la y el estudiante, que considera tanto los intereses de las y los estudiantes como sus entornos y aspiraciones. 
[Summary] Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-first Century: Educational Goals, Policies, and Curricula From Six Nations Year of publication: 2016 Author: Fernando Reimers | Connie K. Chung Corporate author: Global Education Innovation Initiative The book aims to foster discussions on how national education policies support students to prepare for life, work and civic participation in the 21st century. It examines six countries—Chile, China, India, Mexico, Singapore, and the United States—exploring how each one defines, supports, and cultivates those competencies that students will need in order to succeed in the current century. [Resumen] Enseñanza y aprendizaje en el siglo XXI : Metas, políticas educativas y currículo en seis países Year of publication: 2016 Author: Fernando Reimers | Connie K. Chung Corporate author: Global Education Innovation Initiative Este libro pretende promover discusiones sobre cómo las políticas educativas nacionales ayudan a los estudiantes a prepararse para la vida, el trabajo y la participación ciudadana en el siglo XXI. Revisa además cómo los objetivos educativos, los retos y las oportunidades que se perciben, reflejan los contextos histórico, político, y cultural de los sistemas educativos, los cuales a su vez varían en tamaño, mecanismos de gobernanza y condiciones demográficas, entre otros factores. 
Supporting the Continuation of Teaching and Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Annotated Resources for Online Learning Year of publication: 2020 Author: Fernando Reimers | Andreas Schleicher | Jaime Saavedra | Saku Tuominen Corporate author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | Global Education Innovation Initiative | HundrED This resource discusses the second module of a series which presents the results of a comparative analysis of emerging educational needs and responses as the pandemic unfolds across countries around the world. The overall goal of this series is to facilitate the rapid design process and implementation of adaptive responses to the emerging education challenges, and to protect young people’s educational opportunities during and following the pandemic. This second module presents a first set of online educational resources to support the continuity of teaching and learning during the 2019-20 COVID-19 Pandemic with education leaders around the world. The resources were compiled from responses to the same survey used to produce the first module: A framework to guide an education response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, and additional online sources were included to enhance the list in order to support the continuity of learning for students who have access to the internet and digital devices. 
Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning: Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship; Preparing Pupils for Life in an Interconnected World Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: British Council | UK aid This resource contributes to the development of pupils’ core skills, enabling them to think critically, to consider how to resolve problems, to take informed and reflective action and to develop personal leadership skills. During the course, pupils will analyse global issues, and will plan, implement and evaluate action. This course can be linked to a variety of curriculum areas, including English, Social Studies, Geography, Modern Foreign Languages, Maths, History and Art and Design. It can be used with or without an overseas partner school.