Understanding Global Skills for 21st Century Professions

✍ Scribed by Douglas Bourn

Publisher: Springer International Publishing,Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 308
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book highlights the increasing need for people who will be working in professions such as teaching, health, engineering and business management to have the skills for living and working in a global society. Globalisation and the challenges resulting from recent political events in Europe and North America have given rise to a need for training and further and higher education programmes to address the skills young people all need to effectively engage in the current global society. Reviewing the range of theories and debates surrounding skills for the twenty-first century, the author suggests there is a need to directly address the real-world issues of today and move beyond abstract concepts such as team work, critical thinking and problem solving, as important as these concepts are. The author proposes a new framework for global skills using examples from international and national policy-makers and evidence from further and higher educational programmes and training courses. This pioneering yet practical book will be of value to students and scholars of global education as well as practitioners and policy makers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Introduction (Douglas Bourn)....Pages 1-14
Front Matter ....Pages 15-15
Globalisation, Education and Skills (Douglas Bourn)....Pages 17-35
Skills: Importance, Scope and Relevance (Douglas Bourn)....Pages 37-60
Front Matter ....Pages 61-61
From 21st Century Skills to Global Skills (Douglas Bourn)....Pages 63-85
Debates on Global Skills (Douglas Bourn)....Pages 87-109
A Conceptual Framework for Global Skills (Douglas Bourn)....Pages 111-132
Front Matter ....Pages 133-133
Global Skills for Global Graduates and Business (Douglas Bourn)....Pages 135-162
The Global Teacher (Douglas Bourn)....Pages 163-200
The Global Engineer (Douglas Bourn)....Pages 201-219
Skills for Global Health Professionals (Douglas Bourn)....Pages 221-238
Front Matter ....Pages 239-239
Skills for Sustainable Development (Douglas Bourn)....Pages 241-266
Global Skills for Global Social Change (Douglas Bourn)....Pages 267-284
Conclusion (Douglas Bourn)....Pages 285-291
Back Matter ....Pages 293-305

✦ Subjects

Education; International and Comparative Education; Educational Policy and Politics; Personal Development

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