Educating Our Youth To Assist Almost Each Other In Addition To The World
Friday, August 17, 2018
biculturalism,
culture,
global competence,
knowledge,
PISA,
skills,
social inclusion,
societal contexts
by Andreas Schleicher
Director, Directorate for Education together with Skills
In 2015, 193 countries committed to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, a shared vision of humanity that provides the missing slice of the globalisation puzzle. The extent to which that vision becomes a reality volition inward no pocket-size agency depend on what is happening inward today’s classrooms. Indeed, it is educators who concur the key to ensuring that the SDGs choke a existent social contract alongside citizens.
Goal 4, which commits to character teaching for all, is intentionally non express to foundation cognition together with skills, such every bit literacy, mathematics together with science, but emphasises learning to alive together sustainably. This has inspired the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the global yardstick for success inward education, to include global competence inward its metrics for quality, equity together with effectiveness inward education. PISA volition assess global competence for the get-go fourth dimension ever inward 2018.
PISA conceives of global competence every bit a multidimensional, lifelong learning goal. Globally competent individuals tin examine local, global together with intercultural issues, empathize together with appreciate dissimilar perspectives together with basis views, interact successfully together with respectfully alongside others, together with cause got responsible activity toward sustainability together with collective well-being.
It is worth looking at these 4 dimensions inward some to a greater extent than detail.
Examine issues of local, global together with cultural significance. This refers to the powerfulness to combine cognition most the basis alongside critical reasoning whenever people shape their ain opinions most a global issue. Globally competent students tin line on together with combine the disciplinary cognition together with modes of thinking acquired inward schoolhouse to inquire questions, analyse information together with arguments, explicate phenomena, together with educate a put regarding a local, global or cultural issue. They tin also access, analyse together with critically evaluate messages delivered through the media, together with tin create novel media content.
Understand together with appreciate the perspectives together with basis views of others. This highlights a willingness together with capacity to reckon global problems multiple viewpoints. As individuals acquire cognition most other cultures’ histories, values, communication styles, beliefs together with practices, they commence to recognise that their perspectives together with behaviours are shaped past times many influences, that they are non ever fully aware of these influences, together with that others cause got views of the basis that are profoundly dissimilar from their own. Engaging alongside dissimilar perspectives together with basis views requires individuals to examine the origins together with implications of others’ together with their ain assumptions. This, inward turn, implies a honour for together with involvement inward the people who admit together with appreciate the qualities that distinguish individuals from 1 some other are less probable to tolerate acts of injustice inward their daily interactions. On the other hand, people who neglect to educate this competence are considerably to a greater extent than probable to internalise stereotypes, prejudices together with simulated heuristics most those who are “different”.
Engage inward open, appropriate together with effective interactions across cultures. Globally competent people tin adjust their demeanor together with communication to interact alongside individuals from dissimilar cultures. They engage inward respectful dialogue, desire to empathize the other, together with essay to include marginalised groups. This dimension emphasises individuals' capacity to couplet differences alongside others past times communicating inward ways that are open, appropriate together with effective. “Open” interactions hateful relationships inward which all participants demonstrate sensitivity towards, curiosity about, together with a willingness to engage alongside others together with their perspectives. “Appropriate” refers to interactions that honour the cultural norms of both parties. In “effective” communication, all participants tin brand themselves understood together with empathize the other.
Take activity for collective well-being together with sustainable development. This dimension focuses on immature people's operate every bit active together with responsible members of society, together with refers to individuals’ readiness to reply to a given local, global or intercultural number or situation. It recognises that immature people tin cause got an touching on on personal together with local situations, but also on digital together with global issues. Competent people create opportunities to cause got informed, reflective activity together with cause got their voices heard. Taking activity mightiness imply standing upwards for a schoolmate whose human dignity is inward jeopardy, initiating a global media drive at school, or disseminating a personal sentiment most the refugee crisis through social media. Globally competent people are engaged to meliorate living weather condition inward their ain communities together with also to create a to a greater extent than just, peaceful, inclusive together with environmentally sustainable world.
Naturally, global competence tin hold upwards developed inward many contexts; but schools tin play a crucial operate inward this regard. Schools tin render opportunities for immature people to critically examine developments that are meaning to both the basis at large together with to their ain lives. They tin instruct students how to work digital information together with social media platforms critically together with responsibly. Schools tin also encourage intercultural sensitivity together with honour past times encouraging students to engage inward experiences that nurture an appreciation for various peoples, languages together with cultures. This primal operate of schools makes a rigid representative for PISA to examine global competence.
All of this leads to the question: How does 1 assess global competence? In 2018, PISA volition brand a get-go start alongside a two-part assessment consisting of a cognitive evidence together with a background questionnaire. The cognitive assessment elicits students’ capacities to critically examine word articles most global issues; recognise exterior influences on perspectives together with basis views; empathize how to communicate alongside others inward intercultural contexts; together with put together with compare dissimilar courses of activity to address global together with intercultural issues.
In the background questionnaire, students volition hold upwards asked to study how familiar they are alongside global issues; how developed their linguistic together with communication skills are; to what extent they concur sure enough attitudes, such every bit honour for people from dissimilar cultural backgrounds; together with what opportunities they cause got at schoolhouse to educate global competence. Answers to the schoolhouse together with instructor questionnaires volition render a comparative film of how teaching systems are integrating international together with intercultural perspectives throughout the curriculum together with inward classroom activities.
Taken together, the cognitive assessment together with the background questionnaire volition allow educators together with policy makers to address of import questions, such as:
This assessment offers a tangible chance to render the global community alongside the information it needs to create to a greater extent than peaceful, equitable together with sustainable societies through education. It volition render a comprehensive overview of teaching systems’ efforts to create learning environments that encourage immature people to empathize 1 some other together with the basis beyond their immediate environment, together with to cause got activity towards edifice cohesive together with sustainable communities. It volition assistance the many teachers who piece of work every twenty-four hours to fight ignorance, prejudice together with hatred, which are at the root of disengagement, discrimination together with violence.
Some cause got already raised concerns most the feasibility of criterion students' readiness to engage alongside the basis through an international test. International comparisons are never easy, together with they are non perfect, especially when it comes to criterion such complex competences. But without character data, it volition hold upwards hard to initiate a fruitful, global dialogue most what plant inward education.
Links
Preparing our youth for an inclusive together with sustainable world: The OECD PISA global competence framework
Director, Directorate for Education together with Skills
In 2015, 193 countries committed to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, a shared vision of humanity that provides the missing slice of the globalisation puzzle. The extent to which that vision becomes a reality volition inward no pocket-size agency depend on what is happening inward today’s classrooms. Indeed, it is educators who concur the key to ensuring that the SDGs choke a existent social contract alongside citizens.
Goal 4, which commits to character teaching for all, is intentionally non express to foundation cognition together with skills, such every bit literacy, mathematics together with science, but emphasises learning to alive together sustainably. This has inspired the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the global yardstick for success inward education, to include global competence inward its metrics for quality, equity together with effectiveness inward education. PISA volition assess global competence for the get-go fourth dimension ever inward 2018.
PISA conceives of global competence every bit a multidimensional, lifelong learning goal. Globally competent individuals tin examine local, global together with intercultural issues, empathize together with appreciate dissimilar perspectives together with basis views, interact successfully together with respectfully alongside others, together with cause got responsible activity toward sustainability together with collective well-being.
It is worth looking at these 4 dimensions inward some to a greater extent than detail.
Examine issues of local, global together with cultural significance. This refers to the powerfulness to combine cognition most the basis alongside critical reasoning whenever people shape their ain opinions most a global issue. Globally competent students tin line on together with combine the disciplinary cognition together with modes of thinking acquired inward schoolhouse to inquire questions, analyse information together with arguments, explicate phenomena, together with educate a put regarding a local, global or cultural issue. They tin also access, analyse together with critically evaluate messages delivered through the media, together with tin create novel media content.
Understand together with appreciate the perspectives together with basis views of others. This highlights a willingness together with capacity to reckon global problems multiple viewpoints. As individuals acquire cognition most other cultures’ histories, values, communication styles, beliefs together with practices, they commence to recognise that their perspectives together with behaviours are shaped past times many influences, that they are non ever fully aware of these influences, together with that others cause got views of the basis that are profoundly dissimilar from their own. Engaging alongside dissimilar perspectives together with basis views requires individuals to examine the origins together with implications of others’ together with their ain assumptions. This, inward turn, implies a honour for together with involvement inward the people who admit together with appreciate the qualities that distinguish individuals from 1 some other are less probable to tolerate acts of injustice inward their daily interactions. On the other hand, people who neglect to educate this competence are considerably to a greater extent than probable to internalise stereotypes, prejudices together with simulated heuristics most those who are “different”.
Engage inward open, appropriate together with effective interactions across cultures. Globally competent people tin adjust their demeanor together with communication to interact alongside individuals from dissimilar cultures. They engage inward respectful dialogue, desire to empathize the other, together with essay to include marginalised groups. This dimension emphasises individuals' capacity to couplet differences alongside others past times communicating inward ways that are open, appropriate together with effective. “Open” interactions hateful relationships inward which all participants demonstrate sensitivity towards, curiosity about, together with a willingness to engage alongside others together with their perspectives. “Appropriate” refers to interactions that honour the cultural norms of both parties. In “effective” communication, all participants tin brand themselves understood together with empathize the other.
Take activity for collective well-being together with sustainable development. This dimension focuses on immature people's operate every bit active together with responsible members of society, together with refers to individuals’ readiness to reply to a given local, global or intercultural number or situation. It recognises that immature people tin cause got an touching on on personal together with local situations, but also on digital together with global issues. Competent people create opportunities to cause got informed, reflective activity together with cause got their voices heard. Taking activity mightiness imply standing upwards for a schoolmate whose human dignity is inward jeopardy, initiating a global media drive at school, or disseminating a personal sentiment most the refugee crisis through social media. Globally competent people are engaged to meliorate living weather condition inward their ain communities together with also to create a to a greater extent than just, peaceful, inclusive together with environmentally sustainable world.
Naturally, global competence tin hold upwards developed inward many contexts; but schools tin play a crucial operate inward this regard. Schools tin render opportunities for immature people to critically examine developments that are meaning to both the basis at large together with to their ain lives. They tin instruct students how to work digital information together with social media platforms critically together with responsibly. Schools tin also encourage intercultural sensitivity together with honour past times encouraging students to engage inward experiences that nurture an appreciation for various peoples, languages together with cultures. This primal operate of schools makes a rigid representative for PISA to examine global competence.
All of this leads to the question: How does 1 assess global competence? In 2018, PISA volition brand a get-go start alongside a two-part assessment consisting of a cognitive evidence together with a background questionnaire. The cognitive assessment elicits students’ capacities to critically examine word articles most global issues; recognise exterior influences on perspectives together with basis views; empathize how to communicate alongside others inward intercultural contexts; together with put together with compare dissimilar courses of activity to address global together with intercultural issues.
In the background questionnaire, students volition hold upwards asked to study how familiar they are alongside global issues; how developed their linguistic together with communication skills are; to what extent they concur sure enough attitudes, such every bit honour for people from dissimilar cultural backgrounds; together with what opportunities they cause got at schoolhouse to educate global competence. Answers to the schoolhouse together with instructor questionnaires volition render a comparative film of how teaching systems are integrating international together with intercultural perspectives throughout the curriculum together with inward classroom activities.
Taken together, the cognitive assessment together with the background questionnaire volition allow educators together with policy makers to address of import questions, such as:
- To what marking are students able to critically examine contemporary issues of local, global together with intercultural significance?
- To what marking are students able to empathize together with appreciate multiple cultural perspectives (including their own) together with grapple differences together with conflicts?
- To what marking are students prepared to interact respectfully across cultural differences?
- To what marking do students tending most the basis together with cause got activity to brand a positive deviation inward other peoples’ lives together with safeguard the environment?
- Are at that spot inequalities inward access to teaching for global competence betwixt together with inside countries?
- What approaches to multicultural together with intercultural teaching are most usually used inward schoolhouse systems around the world?
- How are teachers existence prepared to educate students’ global competence?
This assessment offers a tangible chance to render the global community alongside the information it needs to create to a greater extent than peaceful, equitable together with sustainable societies through education. It volition render a comprehensive overview of teaching systems’ efforts to create learning environments that encourage immature people to empathize 1 some other together with the basis beyond their immediate environment, together with to cause got activity towards edifice cohesive together with sustainable communities. It volition assistance the many teachers who piece of work every twenty-four hours to fight ignorance, prejudice together with hatred, which are at the root of disengagement, discrimination together with violence.
Some cause got already raised concerns most the feasibility of criterion students' readiness to engage alongside the basis through an international test. International comparisons are never easy, together with they are non perfect, especially when it comes to criterion such complex competences. But without character data, it volition hold upwards hard to initiate a fruitful, global dialogue most what plant inward education.
Links
Preparing our youth for an inclusive together with sustainable world: The OECD PISA global competence framework
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
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