Audacious Education Purposes

Fernando M. Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education and Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and of the International Education Policy Masters Program at Harvard University. An expert in the field of Global Education, his research and teaching focus on understanding how to educate children and youth so they can thrive in the 21st century. He is a member of UNESCO’s high level commission on the Futures of Education.vnaifoijo

• Chapter 1. Thinking multidimensionally about ambitious educational change (Fernando M. Reimers).- Chapter 2. Curriculum Reform in Brazil to Develop Skills for the 21st Century (Claudia Costin and Teresa Pontual).- Chapter 3. Curriculum and Teacher Education Reforms in Finland That Support the Development of Competences for the 21st Century  (Jari Lavonen).- Chapter 4. Japanese Education Reform towards 21st Century Education (Shinichi Yamanaka and Kan Hiroshi Suzuki).- Chapter 5. Education truly matters: Key Lessons from Mexico’s Educational Reform for Educating the Whole Child (Elisa Bonilla-Rius).- Chapter 6. Peru: a wholesale reform fueled by an obsession with learning and equity (Jaime Saavedra and Marcela Gutierrez-Bernal).- Chapter 7. Reforming Education in Poland (Jerzy Wisniewski and Marta Zahorska).- Chapter 8. Curriculum and educational reforms in Portugal: An analysis of why and how students’ knowledge and skills improved (Nuno Crato).- Chapter 9. From the “best in the world” Soviet school to modern globally competitive school system (Isak Froumin and Igor Remorenko).