Overview
- Demonstrates how to build agreed understandings of 21st century skills
- Highlights the intersection of culture, values and beliefs, with 21st century skills
- Includes case studies illustrating concepts introduced in the book
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.
Part of the book series: The Enabling Power of Assessment (EPAS, volume 11)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- 21st century skills
- lifeskills
- educational policy
- measurement
- household-based assessment
- assessment
- contextualisation
- East Africa education
- Open Access
- cultural perspectives
- Life Skills and Values (ALiVE)
- national education systems
- Skills development
- educational expectations vs reality
- conceptualizations of 21st century skills
- Kenya Education
- Tanzania education
- Uganda education
- Open Access
About this book
This open access book is written for educators and policymakers who seek to empower young people with competencies necessary for fulfilling lives in the 21st century. It reports how a large group of educators from government and civil society organisations, together with researchers from universities, used their curriculum, assessment, and social economy expertise to develop contextualised definitions of life skills and values, and associated assessment tools. The book also reports on levels of these competencies of over 45,000 adolescents, from a household-based assessment conducted in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The results describe how these adolescents vary in proficiency by region, age, and other factors, providing a resource for national education ministries to factor into policy decisions.
Given the technical requirements of measuring individuals’ social-emotional and related competencies, how is it possible to capture an adolescent’s life skills across varied contexts? The book provides readers with a pragmatic yet technically robust process for undertaking a large-scale assessment program designed to inform policy.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Esther Care is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and publishes in peer reviewed journals in psychometrics, assessment, and education reform. Previously a Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, Esther leads regional projects which explore integration of 21st century skills into education policy and practice. Her specific interest lies in exploring approaches to assessment of 21st century skills through which pursuit she acts as Technical Adviser to ALiVE.
John Kabutha Mugo is Executive Director, Zizi Afrique Foundation, Kenya. He researches foundational literacy and numeracy, whole-child development, and parental and youth engagement. He is Principal Investigator of Assessment of Life Skills and Values in East Africa (ALiVE), developing contextualized tools across Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. John led the Uwezo learning assessments in East Africa, and chaired the Department of Special Needs education at Kenyatta University.
Mauro Giacomazzi serves as Education Adviser at the Luigi Giussani Institute of Higher Education. Passionate about education, Mauro has a diverse background in designing professional development programs to enhance teachers' competencies in instructional design and to assess life skills. As a Principal Investigator of Assessment for Life Skills and Values in East Africa (ALiVE) and a Board member of the Regional Education Learning Initiative, he actively contributes to educational initiatives and development in the region.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Contextualisation of 21st Century Skills
Book Subtitle: Assessment in East Africa
Editors: Esther Care, Mauro Giacomazzi, John Kabutha Mugo
Series Title: The Enabling Power of Assessment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51490-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51489-0Published: 20 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51492-0Published: 20 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-51490-6Published: 19 February 2024
Series ISSN: 2198-2643
Series E-ISSN: 2198-2651
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 211
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Education, general, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education