Global Education System and 21st Century Skills

Study Notes

The global education system is influenced by economic, digital, cultural, demographic, and environmental forces.
The global education system allows young people to learn to participate in an interconnected world and benefit from diverse cultures.
The global education system combines various educational systems from different nationalities creating a complex global entity.
The global education system is addressed through key dimensions:
- Learning skills of the twenty-first century.
- The third-wave paradigm of education.

Twenty-first-century learning skills include collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity.
Twenty-first-century skills require radical reforms in education systems.
Reforms can happen at macro, meso, site, and operational levels.
Macro - Level Reforms:
- Re-establish new national vision and educational aims.
- Restructure education systems at different levels.
- Restructure market-driving, privatizing, and diversifying education.
Meso - Level Reforms:
- Increase parental and community involvement in education and management.
Site - Level Reforms:
- Ensure education quality, standards, and accountability.
- Increase decentralization and school-based management.
- Enhance teacher quality and continuous professional development for teachers and principals.
Operational - Level Reforms:
- Use information technology in learning and teaching.
- Apply new technologies in management.
- Make a paradigm shift in learning, teaching, and assessment.

Education reforms have gone through three waves of change:
- Effective education movement.
- Good education movement.
- Global education movement.
Each wave of educational reform operates within its paradigm, which defines the nature of education and directs initiatives to change educational practices at all levels.

Assumption about Environment:
- A fast-changing society with globalization and technology advancements.
- A liflong learning and multiple-development society.
Reform Movements:
- World-Class Education Movements strive for sustainable student and societal development in a globalized world.
Conception of Effectiveness:
- Future effectiveness emphasizes the development of individuals and society.
Role of Education Institution:
- Education institutions facilitate sustainable development for students and society through a changing global context.
Nature of Learning:
- Learning develops contextualized multiple intelligences (CMI) and other twenty-first-century competencies for sustainable development.
Nature of Teaching:
- Teaching involves facilitating capacity building for the multiple and sustainable forms of development of students.