How To Cook Students For The Complexity Of A Global Society

by Anthony Jackson, Director, Center for Global Education at Asia Society
Andreas Schleicher, Director, Directorate for Education as well as Skills



In all countries, chop-chop changing global economic, digital, cultural, as well as environmental forces are shaping immature people’s lives as well as their futures. From Boston to Bangkok to Buenos Aires, nosotros alive today inwards a VUCA world: volatile, uncertain, complex, as well as ambiguous.

The world’s growing complexity as well as variety introduce both chance as well as challenge. On the i hand, globalization tin convey of import novel perspectives, innovation, as well as improved living standards. But on the other, it tin every bit good contribute to economical inequality, social division, as well as conflict.

How good pedagogy systems laid upwards all of their students to thrive among today’s chop-chop changing basis volition decide the hereafter prosperity as well as safety of their nations – as well as of the basis every bit a whole. Global competence pedagogy is what volition empower students to do exactly that. Globally competent students tin depict on as well as combine the disciplinary noesis as well as modes of thinking acquired inwards schools to inquire questions, analyse information as well as arguments, explicate phenomena, as well as prepare a seat concerning a local, global or cultural issue. They tin retain their cultural identity but are simultaneously aware of the cultural values as well as beliefs of people roughly them, they examine the origins as well as implications of others’ as well as their ain assumptions. And they tin create opportunities to direct maintain informed, reflective activity as well as direct maintain their voices heard.

On overstep of the complexity of our increasingly interconnected world, as well as the telephone phone of employers for amend intercultural skills, we’ve watched inwards recent years every bit waves of nationalism, racism, as well as anti-globalism direct maintain swept across countries roughly the world. It makes global competence pedagogy that much to a greater extent than critical. To position it simply, the number-one solution to combating nationalist fervor is increasing global understanding.

Both the UN as well as OECD direct maintain prioritized global citizenship as well as global competence pedagogy inwards recent years, amongst practiced reason. Globally competent individuals are aware, curious, as well as interested inwards learning almost the basis as well as how it works, beyond their immediate environment. They recognize the perspectives as well as worldviews of others as well as are able to interact as well as communicate amongst people across cultures as well as regions inwards appropriate ways. And most critically, globally competent individuals don’t exactly empathise the basis (which is no small-scale matter inwards as well as of itself)—they are an active business office of it. They tin as well as do direct maintain activity to solve problems large as well as small-scale to improve our collective well-being.

At the halt of the day, it is globally competent individuals who volition live on able to solve the world’s seemingly intractable problems. And it’s upwards to our world’s educators to laid upwards those individuals for their global futures.

Schools tin brand an of import difference. They are the get-go house where children regard the variety of society. They tin render students amongst opportunities to acquire almost global developments that touching on the basis as well as their ain lives. They tin instruct students to prepare a fact-based as well as critical worldview as well as equip students amongst an appreciation of other cultures as well as an awareness of their ain cultural identities. They tin engage students inwards experiences that facilitate international as well as intercultural relations. And they tin promote the value of diversity, which inwards plough encourages sensitivity, abide by as well as appreciation.

But how to do that? In a novel publication past times the Center for Global Education at Asia Society as well as OECD, Teaching for global competence inwards a chop-chop changing world, nosotros laid frontwards the PISA framework for global competence developed past times OECD, which aligns closely amongst the Definition developed past times the Center for Global Education. Based on Asia Society’s extensive sense supporting educators inwards integrating global competence into their teaching, the publication every bit good provides practical guidance as well as examples of how educators tin embed global competence into their existing curriculum, instruction, as well as assessment.

As the publication demonstrates through its myriad examples, teachers from roughly the basis direct maintain already recognized the importance of teaching for global competence. In i instance from a political scientific discipline instructor inwards India, students visited a nearby refugee army camp to acquire almost the complexity of the global refugee crisis; inwards another, a social studies instructor inwards United Mexican United States guided her students to brand recommendations for reducing corruption that they thus presented to local officials.

But it every bit good shows that for all students to prepare global competence – regardless of their wealth, ethnicity, gender, or background – nosotros involve to create access to high-quality professional person learning for every instructor inwards the world. Teachers prepared to prepare students’ global competence is a requirement for a sustainable, livable future.

Professional learning for teachers is key, as well as that requires leveraging digital applied scientific discipline to chop-chop construct capacity at scale. The challenge straightaway is providing access to these types of professional person evolution resources for all teachers, to transform their teaching methods, their classrooms, their schools – and, eventually, each as well as every i of their students.

Links
Teaching for global competence inwards a chop-chop changing world
Preparing our youth for an inclusive as well as sustainable basis - The OECD PISA global competence framework
PISA 2018 Global Competence

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