Education for Life and Work : Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century

Center for Education Staff, Testing and Assessment Staff, Defining Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills Committee, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine Staff, Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education Sta

ISBN 10: 0309256496 / ISBN 13: 9780309256490

Verlag: National Academies Press, 2013

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Titel: Education for Life and Work : Developing ...

Verlag: National Academies Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 2013

Einband: Softcover

Zustand: Very Good

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Americans have long recognized that investments in public education contribute to the common good, enhancing national prosperity and supporting stable families, neighborhoods, and communities. Education is even more critical today, in the face of economic, environmental, and social challenges. Today's children can meet future challenges if their schooling and informal learning activities prepare them for adult roles as citizens, employees, managers, parents, volunteers, and entrepreneurs. To achieve their full potential as adults, young people need to develop a range of skills and knowledge that facilitate mastery and application of English, mathematics, and other school subjects. At the same time, business and political leaders are increasingly asking schools to develop skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and self-management - often referred to as "21st century skills."

Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century describes this important set of key skills that increase deeper learning, college and career readiness, student-centered learning, and higher order thinking. These labels include both cognitive and non-cognitive skills- such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, effective communication, motivation, persistence, and learning to learn. 21st century skills also include creativity, innovation, and ethics that are important to later success and may be developed in formal or informal learning environments.

This report also describes how these skills relate to each other and to more traditional academic skills and content in the key disciplines of reading, mathematics, and science. Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century summarizes the findings of the research that investigates the importance of such skills to success in education, work, and other areas of adult responsibility and that demonstrates the importance of developing these skills in K-16 education. In this report, features related to learning these skills are identified, which include teacher professional development, curriculum, assessment, after-school and out-of-school programs, and informal learning centers such as exhibits and museums.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Summary
• 1 Introduction
• 2 A Preliminary Classification of Skills and Abilities
• 3 Importance of Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills
• 4 Perspectives on Deeper Learning
• 5 Deeper Learning of English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science
• 6 Teaching and Assessing for Transfer
• 7 Systems to Support Deeper Learning
• References
• Appendix A: 21st Century Skills and Competencies Included in the OECD Survey
• Appendix B: Reports on 21st Century Skills Used in Aligning and Clustering Competencies
• Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
• Index

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.