Preparing and Supporting Teachers in the Asia-Pacific to Meet the Challenges of 21st<\/sup> Century Learning (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002468\/246852E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assessment of Transversal Competencies: Policy and Practice in the Asia- Pacific region\u00a0(http:\/\/bangkok.unesco.org\/content\/assessment-transversal-competencies-policy-and-practice-asia-pacific-region<\/a>)<\/p>\n
School and Teaching Practices for 21st<\/sup> Century Challenges (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002440\/244022E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preparing and Supporting Teachers in the Asia-Pacific to Meet the Challenges of 21st<\/sup> Century Learning (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002468\/246852E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assessment of Transversal Competencies: Policy and Practice in the Asia- Pacific region\u00a0(http:\/\/bangkok.unesco.org\/content\/assessment-transversal-competencies-policy-and-practice-asia-pacific-region<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\n Transversal Competencies in Education Policy and Practice (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0023\/002319\/231907E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n School and Teaching Practices for 21st<\/sup> Century Challenges (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002440\/244022E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preparing and Supporting Teachers in the Asia-Pacific to Meet the Challenges of 21st<\/sup> Century Learning (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002468\/246852E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assessment of Transversal Competencies: Policy and Practice in the Asia- Pacific region\u00a0(http:\/\/bangkok.unesco.org\/content\/assessment-transversal-competencies-policy-and-practice-asia-pacific-region<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\n Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Transversal Competencies in Education Policy and Practice (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0023\/002319\/231907E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n School and Teaching Practices for 21st<\/sup> Century Challenges (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002440\/244022E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preparing and Supporting Teachers in the Asia-Pacific to Meet the Challenges of 21st<\/sup> Century Learning (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002468\/246852E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assessment of Transversal Competencies: Policy and Practice in the Asia- Pacific region\u00a0(http:\/\/bangkok.unesco.org\/content\/assessment-transversal-competencies-policy-and-practice-asia-pacific-region<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\n Esther Care [ECare@brookings.edu]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Transversal Competencies in Education Policy and Practice (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0023\/002319\/231907E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n School and Teaching Practices for 21st<\/sup> Century Challenges (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002440\/244022E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preparing and Supporting Teachers in the Asia-Pacific to Meet the Challenges of 21st<\/sup> Century Learning (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002468\/246852E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assessment of Transversal Competencies: Policy and Practice in the Asia- Pacific region\u00a0(http:\/\/bangkok.unesco.org\/content\/assessment-transversal-competencies-policy-and-practice-asia-pacific-region<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\n For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care [ECare@brookings.edu]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Transversal Competencies in Education Policy and Practice (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0023\/002319\/231907E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n School and Teaching Practices for 21st<\/sup> Century Challenges (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002440\/244022E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preparing and Supporting Teachers in the Asia-Pacific to Meet the Challenges of 21st<\/sup> Century Learning (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002468\/246852E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assessment of Transversal Competencies: Policy and Practice in the Asia- Pacific region\u00a0(http:\/\/bangkok.unesco.org\/content\/assessment-transversal-competencies-policy-and-practice-asia-pacific-region<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\n Esther Care, Senior Research Fellow, Brookings Institution<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care [ECare@brookings.edu]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Transversal Competencies in Education Policy and Practice (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0023\/002319\/231907E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n School and Teaching Practices for 21st<\/sup> Century Challenges (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002440\/244022E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preparing and Supporting Teachers in the Asia-Pacific to Meet the Challenges of 21st<\/sup> Century Learning (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002468\/246852E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assessment of Transversal Competencies: Policy and Practice in the Asia- Pacific region\u00a0(http:\/\/bangkok.unesco.org\/content\/assessment-transversal-competencies-policy-and-practice-asia-pacific-region<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\n Written by:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care, Senior Research Fellow, Brookings Institution<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care [ECare@brookings.edu]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Transversal Competencies in Education Policy and Practice (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0023\/002319\/231907E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n School and Teaching Practices for 21st<\/sup> Century Challenges (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002440\/244022E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preparing and Supporting Teachers in the Asia-Pacific to Meet the Challenges of 21st<\/sup> Century Learning (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002468\/246852E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assessment of Transversal Competencies: Policy and Practice in the Asia- Pacific region\u00a0(http:\/\/bangkok.unesco.org\/content\/assessment-transversal-competencies-policy-and-practice-asia-pacific-region<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\n In continuation of this joint effort in this area, starting in 2017 the Brookings Institution together with the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) will collaborate with two regional networks over three years to explore the implications of the 21st century skills education agenda for assessment. The focus on preparing today's students more explicitly to respond to our 21st century world highlights the need not only for curriculum reform, but for associated changes in instructional strategies and approaches to assessment. This new initiative, known as \"Optimizing Assessment for All\", will provide an opportunity for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to collaborate on the development of assessment tasks that will help promote instruction of these skills. The work is anticipated to provide models that individual countries can adopt to continue assessment work on those skills that they most highly value. The project will start with workshops centred around constructive use of assessments, and identification by participating countries of their assessment needs and priorities. In the Asia-Pacific, this regional work will be supported by the NEQMAP Secretariat at UNESCO Bangkok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Written by:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care, Senior Research Fellow, Brookings Institution<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care [ECare@brookings.edu]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Transversal Competencies in Education Policy and Practice (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0023\/002319\/231907E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n School and Teaching Practices for 21st<\/sup> Century Challenges (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002440\/244022E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preparing and Supporting Teachers in the Asia-Pacific to Meet the Challenges of 21st<\/sup> Century Learning (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002468\/246852E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assessment of Transversal Competencies: Policy and Practice in the Asia- Pacific region\u00a0(http:\/\/bangkok.unesco.org\/content\/assessment-transversal-competencies-policy-and-practice-asia-pacific-region<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\n In Washington DC in early April, UNESCO\u00a0Bangkok Programme Specialist Ramya Vivekanandan\u00a0participated in a panel at the Brookings Institution\u2019s annual research and policy symposium on\u00a0\u201cSkills for a Changing World\u201d<\/a>, which focused on the acknowledged trend in education toward a more explicit focus on 21st century skills, or transversal competencies. The event centered around the launch of the new Brookings publication\u00a0Skills for a changing world: National perspectives and the global movement<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0This is a subject of major interest in the Asia-Pacific, with boththe\u00a0Education Research Institutes Network (ERI-NET)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP)<\/a>\u00a0communities, which are coordinated by UNESCO Bangkok, having researched the trend over the past few years. Ms. Vivekanandan also provided insights from the\u00a0ERI-NET and NEQMAP studies through a podcast\u00a0\u201cTeaching for the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century: Broader skills for global citizens\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>hosted by Brookings Senior Fellow Esther Care, and with Sean Slade, Director of Outreach at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), highlighting both the progress and the challenges that the region confronts. The Asia-Pacific as a region leads interest in the transversal competencies arena, demonstrating the power of countries working together on innovations in education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In continuation of this joint effort in this area, starting in 2017 the Brookings Institution together with the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) will collaborate with two regional networks over three years to explore the implications of the 21st century skills education agenda for assessment. The focus on preparing today's students more explicitly to respond to our 21st century world highlights the need not only for curriculum reform, but for associated changes in instructional strategies and approaches to assessment. This new initiative, known as \"Optimizing Assessment for All\", will provide an opportunity for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to collaborate on the development of assessment tasks that will help promote instruction of these skills. The work is anticipated to provide models that individual countries can adopt to continue assessment work on those skills that they most highly value. The project will start with workshops centred around constructive use of assessments, and identification by participating countries of their assessment needs and priorities. In the Asia-Pacific, this regional work will be supported by the NEQMAP Secretariat at UNESCO Bangkok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Written by:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care, Senior Research Fellow, Brookings Institution<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care [ECare@brookings.edu]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Transversal Competencies in Education Policy and Practice (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0023\/002319\/231907E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n School and Teaching Practices for 21st<\/sup> Century Challenges (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002440\/244022E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preparing and Supporting Teachers in the Asia-Pacific to Meet the Challenges of 21st<\/sup> Century Learning (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002468\/246852E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assessment of Transversal Competencies: Policy and Practice in the Asia- Pacific region\u00a0(http:\/\/bangkok.unesco.org\/content\/assessment-transversal-competencies-policy-and-practice-asia-pacific-region<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\n Article summary and presentations <\/a> <\/p>\n","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/neqmap.bangkok.unesco.org\/?p=2256","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":1649,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-05-30 14:56:48","post_date_gmt":"2017-05-30 07:56:48","post_content":"\n In Washington DC in early April, UNESCO\u00a0Bangkok Programme Specialist Ramya Vivekanandan\u00a0participated in a panel at the Brookings Institution\u2019s annual research and policy symposium on\u00a0\u201cSkills for a Changing World\u201d<\/a>, which focused on the acknowledged trend in education toward a more explicit focus on 21st century skills, or transversal competencies. The event centered around the launch of the new Brookings publication\u00a0Skills for a changing world: National perspectives and the global movement<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0This is a subject of major interest in the Asia-Pacific, with boththe\u00a0Education Research Institutes Network (ERI-NET)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP)<\/a>\u00a0communities, which are coordinated by UNESCO Bangkok, having researched the trend over the past few years. Ms. Vivekanandan also provided insights from the\u00a0ERI-NET and NEQMAP studies through a podcast\u00a0\u201cTeaching for the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century: Broader skills for global citizens\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>hosted by Brookings Senior Fellow Esther Care, and with Sean Slade, Director of Outreach at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), highlighting both the progress and the challenges that the region confronts. The Asia-Pacific as a region leads interest in the transversal competencies arena, demonstrating the power of countries working together on innovations in education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In continuation of this joint effort in this area, starting in 2017 the Brookings Institution together with the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) will collaborate with two regional networks over three years to explore the implications of the 21st century skills education agenda for assessment. The focus on preparing today's students more explicitly to respond to our 21st century world highlights the need not only for curriculum reform, but for associated changes in instructional strategies and approaches to assessment. This new initiative, known as \"Optimizing Assessment for All\", will provide an opportunity for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to collaborate on the development of assessment tasks that will help promote instruction of these skills. The work is anticipated to provide models that individual countries can adopt to continue assessment work on those skills that they most highly value. The project will start with workshops centred around constructive use of assessments, and identification by participating countries of their assessment needs and priorities. In the Asia-Pacific, this regional work will be supported by the NEQMAP Secretariat at UNESCO Bangkok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Written by:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care, Senior Research Fellow, Brookings Institution<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care [ECare@brookings.edu]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Transversal Competencies in Education Policy and Practice (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0023\/002319\/231907E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n School and Teaching Practices for 21st<\/sup> Century Challenges (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002440\/244022E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preparing and Supporting Teachers in the Asia-Pacific to Meet the Challenges of 21st<\/sup> Century Learning (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002468\/246852E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assessment of Transversal Competencies: Policy and Practice in the Asia- Pacific region\u00a0(http:\/\/bangkok.unesco.org\/content\/assessment-transversal-competencies-policy-and-practice-asia-pacific-region<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\n Concluding the session, UNU-IAS Director Yamaguchi emphasised that the dynamic reform of education to bring about transformative change and paradigm shifts is pivotal to a sustainable planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Article summary and presentations <\/a> <\/p>\n","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/neqmap.bangkok.unesco.org\/?p=2256","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":1649,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-05-30 14:56:48","post_date_gmt":"2017-05-30 07:56:48","post_content":"\n In Washington DC in early April, UNESCO\u00a0Bangkok Programme Specialist Ramya Vivekanandan\u00a0participated in a panel at the Brookings Institution\u2019s annual research and policy symposium on\u00a0\u201cSkills for a Changing World\u201d<\/a>, which focused on the acknowledged trend in education toward a more explicit focus on 21st century skills, or transversal competencies. The event centered around the launch of the new Brookings publication\u00a0Skills for a changing world: National perspectives and the global movement<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0This is a subject of major interest in the Asia-Pacific, with boththe\u00a0Education Research Institutes Network (ERI-NET)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP)<\/a>\u00a0communities, which are coordinated by UNESCO Bangkok, having researched the trend over the past few years. Ms. Vivekanandan also provided insights from the\u00a0ERI-NET and NEQMAP studies through a podcast\u00a0\u201cTeaching for the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century: Broader skills for global citizens\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>hosted by Brookings Senior Fellow Esther Care, and with Sean Slade, Director of Outreach at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), highlighting both the progress and the challenges that the region confronts. The Asia-Pacific as a region leads interest in the transversal competencies arena, demonstrating the power of countries working together on innovations in education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In continuation of this joint effort in this area, starting in 2017 the Brookings Institution together with the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) will collaborate with two regional networks over three years to explore the implications of the 21st century skills education agenda for assessment. The focus on preparing today's students more explicitly to respond to our 21st century world highlights the need not only for curriculum reform, but for associated changes in instructional strategies and approaches to assessment. This new initiative, known as \"Optimizing Assessment for All\", will provide an opportunity for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to collaborate on the development of assessment tasks that will help promote instruction of these skills. The work is anticipated to provide models that individual countries can adopt to continue assessment work on those skills that they most highly value. The project will start with workshops centred around constructive use of assessments, and identification by participating countries of their assessment needs and priorities. In the Asia-Pacific, this regional work will be supported by the NEQMAP Secretariat at UNESCO Bangkok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Written by:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care, Senior Research Fellow, Brookings Institution<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care [ECare@brookings.edu]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Transversal Competencies in Education Policy and Practice (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0023\/002319\/231907E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n School and Teaching Practices for 21st<\/sup> Century Challenges (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002440\/244022E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preparing and Supporting Teachers in the Asia-Pacific to Meet the Challenges of 21st<\/sup> Century Learning (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002468\/246852E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assessment of Transversal Competencies: Policy and Practice in the Asia- Pacific region\u00a0(http:\/\/bangkok.unesco.org\/content\/assessment-transversal-competencies-policy-and-practice-asia-pacific-region<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\n Maki Hayashikawa (UNESCO Bangkok) in her synthesis commended these diversified approaches highlighted by the four speakers as timely in this challenging time when the world is facing \u201can invisible enemy, COVID-19\u201d. She pointed out that through tackling the coronavirus outbreak, we should also take the opportunity to bring about transformative changes by reframing the system and concept of education. At the discussion, issues relating to RCEs operation and the emphasis on the relationship between human beings and the environment by the Satoyama Initiative were also discussed. Participants were particularly interested in UNESCO projects and raised some questions to clarify the modalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concluding the session, UNU-IAS Director Yamaguchi emphasised that the dynamic reform of education to bring about transformative change and paradigm shifts is pivotal to a sustainable planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Article summary and presentations <\/a> <\/p>\n","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/neqmap.bangkok.unesco.org\/?p=2256","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":1649,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-05-30 14:56:48","post_date_gmt":"2017-05-30 07:56:48","post_content":"\n In Washington DC in early April, UNESCO\u00a0Bangkok Programme Specialist Ramya Vivekanandan\u00a0participated in a panel at the Brookings Institution\u2019s annual research and policy symposium on\u00a0\u201cSkills for a Changing World\u201d<\/a>, which focused on the acknowledged trend in education toward a more explicit focus on 21st century skills, or transversal competencies. The event centered around the launch of the new Brookings publication\u00a0Skills for a changing world: National perspectives and the global movement<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0This is a subject of major interest in the Asia-Pacific, with boththe\u00a0Education Research Institutes Network (ERI-NET)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP)<\/a>\u00a0communities, which are coordinated by UNESCO Bangkok, having researched the trend over the past few years. Ms. Vivekanandan also provided insights from the\u00a0ERI-NET and NEQMAP studies through a podcast\u00a0\u201cTeaching for the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century: Broader skills for global citizens\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>hosted by Brookings Senior Fellow Esther Care, and with Sean Slade, Director of Outreach at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), highlighting both the progress and the challenges that the region confronts. The Asia-Pacific as a region leads interest in the transversal competencies arena, demonstrating the power of countries working together on innovations in education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In continuation of this joint effort in this area, starting in 2017 the Brookings Institution together with the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) will collaborate with two regional networks over three years to explore the implications of the 21st century skills education agenda for assessment. The focus on preparing today's students more explicitly to respond to our 21st century world highlights the need not only for curriculum reform, but for associated changes in instructional strategies and approaches to assessment. This new initiative, known as \"Optimizing Assessment for All\", will provide an opportunity for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to collaborate on the development of assessment tasks that will help promote instruction of these skills. The work is anticipated to provide models that individual countries can adopt to continue assessment work on those skills that they most highly value. The project will start with workshops centred around constructive use of assessments, and identification by participating countries of their assessment needs and priorities. In the Asia-Pacific, this regional work will be supported by the NEQMAP Secretariat at UNESCO Bangkok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Written by:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care, Senior Research Fellow, Brookings Institution<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care [ECare@brookings.edu]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Transversal Competencies in Education Policy and Practice (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0023\/002319\/231907E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n School and Teaching Practices for 21st<\/sup> Century Challenges (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002440\/244022E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preparing and Supporting Teachers in the Asia-Pacific to Meet the Challenges of 21st<\/sup> Century Learning (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002468\/246852E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assessment of Transversal Competencies: Policy and Practice in the Asia- Pacific region\u00a0(http:\/\/bangkok.unesco.org\/content\/assessment-transversal-competencies-policy-and-practice-asia-pacific-region<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\n Evonne Yiu<\/a>\u00a0(UNU-IAS) showcased the \u201cSatoyama Initiative\u201d approach to foster community-based learning and action for biodiversity conservation. She exemplified community-based learning for revitalizing and conserving human-influenced socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS) and stressed three levels for transformative change: Structure, Behavior, and Consciousness. Jonghwi Park (UIL) featured the UNESCO \u201cDigital Kids Asia-Pacific Project\u201d which aims to foster digital citizenship among children and youth beyond ICT skills. Based on the key findings of the study targeting more than 5,000 students in four countries in the Asia-Pacific region, she underscored children\u2019s relatively low digital creativity and innovation, and the digital divide that affects children\u2019s digital citizenship competencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maki Hayashikawa (UNESCO Bangkok) in her synthesis commended these diversified approaches highlighted by the four speakers as timely in this challenging time when the world is facing \u201can invisible enemy, COVID-19\u201d. She pointed out that through tackling the coronavirus outbreak, we should also take the opportunity to bring about transformative changes by reframing the system and concept of education. At the discussion, issues relating to RCEs operation and the emphasis on the relationship between human beings and the environment by the Satoyama Initiative were also discussed. Participants were particularly interested in UNESCO projects and raised some questions to clarify the modalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concluding the session, UNU-IAS Director Yamaguchi emphasised that the dynamic reform of education to bring about transformative change and paradigm shifts is pivotal to a sustainable planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Article summary and presentations <\/a> <\/p>\n","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/neqmap.bangkok.unesco.org\/?p=2256","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":1649,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-05-30 14:56:48","post_date_gmt":"2017-05-30 07:56:48","post_content":"\n In Washington DC in early April, UNESCO\u00a0Bangkok Programme Specialist Ramya Vivekanandan\u00a0participated in a panel at the Brookings Institution\u2019s annual research and policy symposium on\u00a0\u201cSkills for a Changing World\u201d<\/a>, which focused on the acknowledged trend in education toward a more explicit focus on 21st century skills, or transversal competencies. The event centered around the launch of the new Brookings publication\u00a0Skills for a changing world: National perspectives and the global movement<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0This is a subject of major interest in the Asia-Pacific, with boththe\u00a0Education Research Institutes Network (ERI-NET)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP)<\/a>\u00a0communities, which are coordinated by UNESCO Bangkok, having researched the trend over the past few years. Ms. Vivekanandan also provided insights from the\u00a0ERI-NET and NEQMAP studies through a podcast\u00a0\u201cTeaching for the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century: Broader skills for global citizens\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>hosted by Brookings Senior Fellow Esther Care, and with Sean Slade, Director of Outreach at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), highlighting both the progress and the challenges that the region confronts. The Asia-Pacific as a region leads interest in the transversal competencies arena, demonstrating the power of countries working together on innovations in education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In continuation of this joint effort in this area, starting in 2017 the Brookings Institution together with the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) will collaborate with two regional networks over three years to explore the implications of the 21st century skills education agenda for assessment. The focus on preparing today's students more explicitly to respond to our 21st century world highlights the need not only for curriculum reform, but for associated changes in instructional strategies and approaches to assessment. This new initiative, known as \"Optimizing Assessment for All\", will provide an opportunity for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to collaborate on the development of assessment tasks that will help promote instruction of these skills. The work is anticipated to provide models that individual countries can adopt to continue assessment work on those skills that they most highly value. The project will start with workshops centred around constructive use of assessments, and identification by participating countries of their assessment needs and priorities. In the Asia-Pacific, this regional work will be supported by the NEQMAP Secretariat at UNESCO Bangkok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Written by:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care, Senior Research Fellow, Brookings Institution<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care [ECare@brookings.edu]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Transversal Competencies in Education Policy and Practice (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0023\/002319\/231907E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n School and Teaching Practices for 21st<\/sup> Century Challenges (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002440\/244022E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preparing and Supporting Teachers in the Asia-Pacific to Meet the Challenges of 21st<\/sup> Century Learning (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002468\/246852E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assessment of Transversal Competencies: Policy and Practice in the Asia- Pacific region\u00a0(http:\/\/bangkok.unesco.org\/content\/assessment-transversal-competencies-policy-and-practice-asia-pacific-region<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\n Hiroaki Takiguchi<\/a>\u00a0(UNU-IAS) focused on a multi-stakeholder approach for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) beyond school settings. Bringing up cases of Regional Centres of Expertise (RCEs) on ESD, which UNU-IAS serves as the Global Service Center, multi-stakeholders can learn collaboratively and make collective decisions and actions towards sustainable development and ESD within a local context.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Evonne Yiu<\/a>\u00a0(UNU-IAS) showcased the \u201cSatoyama Initiative\u201d approach to foster community-based learning and action for biodiversity conservation. She exemplified community-based learning for revitalizing and conserving human-influenced socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS) and stressed three levels for transformative change: Structure, Behavior, and Consciousness. Jonghwi Park (UIL) featured the UNESCO \u201cDigital Kids Asia-Pacific Project\u201d which aims to foster digital citizenship among children and youth beyond ICT skills. Based on the key findings of the study targeting more than 5,000 students in four countries in the Asia-Pacific region, she underscored children\u2019s relatively low digital creativity and innovation, and the digital divide that affects children\u2019s digital citizenship competencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maki Hayashikawa (UNESCO Bangkok) in her synthesis commended these diversified approaches highlighted by the four speakers as timely in this challenging time when the world is facing \u201can invisible enemy, COVID-19\u201d. She pointed out that through tackling the coronavirus outbreak, we should also take the opportunity to bring about transformative changes by reframing the system and concept of education. At the discussion, issues relating to RCEs operation and the emphasis on the relationship between human beings and the environment by the Satoyama Initiative were also discussed. Participants were particularly interested in UNESCO projects and raised some questions to clarify the modalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concluding the session, UNU-IAS Director Yamaguchi emphasised that the dynamic reform of education to bring about transformative change and paradigm shifts is pivotal to a sustainable planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Article summary and presentations <\/a> <\/p>\n","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/neqmap.bangkok.unesco.org\/?p=2256","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":1649,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-05-30 14:56:48","post_date_gmt":"2017-05-30 07:56:48","post_content":"\n In Washington DC in early April, UNESCO\u00a0Bangkok Programme Specialist Ramya Vivekanandan\u00a0participated in a panel at the Brookings Institution\u2019s annual research and policy symposium on\u00a0\u201cSkills for a Changing World\u201d<\/a>, which focused on the acknowledged trend in education toward a more explicit focus on 21st century skills, or transversal competencies. The event centered around the launch of the new Brookings publication\u00a0Skills for a changing world: National perspectives and the global movement<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0This is a subject of major interest in the Asia-Pacific, with boththe\u00a0Education Research Institutes Network (ERI-NET)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP)<\/a>\u00a0communities, which are coordinated by UNESCO Bangkok, having researched the trend over the past few years. Ms. Vivekanandan also provided insights from the\u00a0ERI-NET and NEQMAP studies through a podcast\u00a0\u201cTeaching for the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century: Broader skills for global citizens\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>hosted by Brookings Senior Fellow Esther Care, and with Sean Slade, Director of Outreach at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), highlighting both the progress and the challenges that the region confronts. The Asia-Pacific as a region leads interest in the transversal competencies arena, demonstrating the power of countries working together on innovations in education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In continuation of this joint effort in this area, starting in 2017 the Brookings Institution together with the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) will collaborate with two regional networks over three years to explore the implications of the 21st century skills education agenda for assessment. The focus on preparing today's students more explicitly to respond to our 21st century world highlights the need not only for curriculum reform, but for associated changes in instructional strategies and approaches to assessment. This new initiative, known as \"Optimizing Assessment for All\", will provide an opportunity for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to collaborate on the development of assessment tasks that will help promote instruction of these skills. The work is anticipated to provide models that individual countries can adopt to continue assessment work on those skills that they most highly value. The project will start with workshops centred around constructive use of assessments, and identification by participating countries of their assessment needs and priorities. In the Asia-Pacific, this regional work will be supported by the NEQMAP Secretariat at UNESCO Bangkok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Written by:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care, Senior Research Fellow, Brookings Institution<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Esther Care [ECare@brookings.edu]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Transversal Competencies in Education Policy and Practice (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0023\/002319\/231907E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n School and Teaching Practices for 21st<\/sup> Century Challenges (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002440\/244022E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preparing and Supporting Teachers in the Asia-Pacific to Meet the Challenges of 21st<\/sup> Century Learning (http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0024\/002468\/246852E.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n