Education for life and work : developing transferable knowledge and skills in the 21st century
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Education for life and work : developing transferable knowledge and skills in the 21st century
The National Academies Press, c2012
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Committee on Defining Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills"
"Board on Testing and Assessment, and Board on Science Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education."
"National Research Council of the National Academies"
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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
Table of Contents
- 1 Front Matter
- 2 Summary
- 3 1 Introduction
- 4 2 A Preliminary Classification of Skills and Abilities
- 5 3 Importance of Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills
- 6 4 Perspectives on Deeper Learning
- 7 5 Deeper Learning of English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science
- 8 6 Teaching and Assessing for Transfer
- 9 7 Systems to Support Deeper Learning
- 10 References
- 11 Appendix A: 21st Century Skills and Competencies Included in the OECD Survey
- 12 Appendix B: Reports on 21st Century Skills Used in Aligning and Clustering Competencies
- 13 Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
- 14 Index
by "Nielsen BookData"