Educating for the 21st Century

Chapter 1 Today’s Children, Tomorrow’s Creatives: Living, Learning and Earning in the Conceptual Age

Chapter 2 Digitalizing Tradition: Staging Postcolonial Elite School Identities in the Online Environment

Chapter 3 “Players in the World”: Action for Intercultural Competence in Classroom Pedagogy

Chapter 4 Deliberating Values for Global Citizenship: A Study of Singapore’s Social Studies and Hong Kong’s Liberal Studies Curricula

Chapter 5 Signature Pedagogies in Global Competence Education: Understanding Quality Teaching Practice

Chapter 6 Voices from the Field: What Can We Learn from Leaders of Diverse Schools in Ontario Canada, Tensions and Possibilities?

Chapter 7 Education for a Better World: The Struggle for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 8 Global Leadership Training for High School Students in Japan: Are Global Leadership Competencies Trainable, Universal, and Measurable?

Chapter 9 Exploring Top-Down and Bottom-Up Cosmopolitan Traces in Schools on the West Coast of the United States

Chapter 10 Exploring the Transformative Potential of a Global Education Framework: A Case-Study of a School District in the United States

Chapter 11 For Whom Is K-12 Education: A Critical Look into Twenty-First Century Educational Policy and Curriculum in the Philippines

Chapter 12 Preparing Students for the Twenty-First Century: A Snapshot of Singapore’s Approach

Chapter 13 Towards Twenty-First Century Education: Success Factors, Challenges, and the Renewal of Finnish Education

Chapter 14 Imagining the Cosmopolitan Global Citizen? Parents’ Choice of International Schools in Kuwait

Chapter 15 Towards Being a “Good Cuban”: Socialist Citizenship Education in a Globalized Context

Chapter 16 Teaching Global Citizenship Education with Empathy Model and Experiential Learning: Case Study of Action Research on Developing Empathy in a Hong Kong Secondary School

Chapter 17 Reimagine Lakeshore: A School Division Change Initiative for the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 18 A Case Study of Curriculum Innovation for Global Capacities: One Response to the Call of the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 19 MEDIAtion: Flexible Literacy Terms, Communication and “Viral” Learning in 9–12 Classrooms

Chapter 20 A Prototype Twenty-First Century Class: A School-Wide Initiative to Engage the Digital Native

Chapter 21 Preparing Students for a New Global Age: Perspectives from a Pioneer ‘Future School’ in Singapore

Chapter 22 Problematizing ‘Global Citizenship’ in an International School

Chapter 23 Being Open to the Other: K-12 Teachers’ Multimodal Reflections on Hong Kong Curricula

Chapter 24 A New Wave of Learning in Finland: Get Started with Innovation!

Chapter 25 Erratum: Chapter 5 Signature Pedagogies in Global Competence Education: Understanding Quality Teaching Practice