Teaching and learning for the twenty-first century : educational goals, policies, and curricula form six nations / Fernando M. Reimers, Connie K. Chung, editors

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Singapore's system approach to teaching and learning twenty-first century competencies -- Chapter 2: Thinking Big, Acting Small Lessons from Twenty-First-century curriculum reform in China -- Chapter 3: Strong content, weak tools: twenty-first-century competencies in chilean educational reform -- Chapter 4: Curriculum reform and twenty-first-centuvry skills in Mexico: are standards and teacher training materials aligned? -- Chapter 5: Twenty-first-century competencies, the indian national curriculum framework, and the history of education in India -- Chapter 6: Mapping the landscape of teaching and learning for the twenty-first-century in Massachusetts in the context of US educational reform -- Conclusion.

"Examines how six countries Chile, China, India, Mexico, Singapore, and the United States define, support, and cultivate the core competencies that students will need in order to succeed in the current century. The fruition of a collaborative research project at the Global Education Innovation Initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), the book s crucial contribution to the burgeoning field of international education arises out of its special attention to first principles and thus to first questions: As Reimers and Chung explain, much can be gained by an explicit investigation of the intended purposes of education, in what they attempt to teach students, and in the related questions of why those purposes and how they are achieved". -- Tomado de la contraportada