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Paul Beaufait

Global Competence Through Career and Technical Education | Asia Society - 0 views

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    "Career and technical education (CTE or vocational education) educators now face a critical new imperative: to prepare all students for work and civic roles in a world where success increasingly requires the ability to compete, connect, and cooperate on an international scale. / A new, free professional development course and toolkit, "Global Competence Through Career and Technical Education," is available to help" (¶¶1-2, 2017.11.29).
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International Engagement Through Education: Remarks by Secretary Arne Duncan at the Cou... - 0 views

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  • We must improve language learning and international education at all levels if our nation is to continue to lead in the global economy; to help bring security and stability to the world; and to build stronger and more productive ties with our neighbors.
  • The United States is a country made up of many cultures—and we often celebrate that diversity. But just as often, we rely on the predominance of English as the language of global business and higher education when looking toward the world.
  • Paul Beaufait on 26 Mar 15
     
    What Sec. Duncan said about cross-cultural and language education in the U.S. may apply to other countries around the world as well.
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Speaking the global language - Education | The Star Online - 0 views

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    Rajaendram and Khor (2015) quoted an open letter from "a group of prominent Malaysian" that embraced integrative motivation for developing English proficiency: "'[I]f we aspire to be more proficient in the language, we are only trying to be better citizens of the world'" (¶4). What a breathe of fresh air among all the integrative motives that articles like this one often highlight! Rajaendram, Rebecca, & Khor, Ann-Marie. (2015, August 9). Speaking the global language. The Star Online, Education section. Retrieved from http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Education/2015/08/09/Speaking-the-global-language/
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NCEE | Empowered Educators - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 21 Jul 17
     
    "_Empowered Educators_ is a landmark, international comparative study of teacher and teaching quality in the world's top-performing education systems" (How are they doing it? ¶2).
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Welcome | Global Issues in Language Education - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 24 Jul 14
     
    The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) GILE SIG "works to promote global awareness, international understanding, social responsibility and action to solve world problems through content-based language teaching drawing on fields such as global education, peace education, environmental education and human rights education" (Main page, Welcome, ¶1, 2014.07.10).
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INTERVIEW: Peter Senge on Education, Systems Thinking and Our Careers - 0 views

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  • We live in a world of increasingly complex and intractable problems. These are especially evident in the environmental and social domains. They range from climate change and destruction of ecosystems, to scarcity of water and other critical natural resources, and to the disproportionate effects these growing scarcities are having on the poor of the world
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      Paul Beaufait on 29 Aug 14
       
      In this book..., ¶1
  • We have deep intractable social issues, such as youth unemployment around the world and the growing gap between rich and poor. All these ultimately are economic in the same sense that all social and environmental issues ultimately show up in our economic system. No one is very happy with the ability of their economies to establish pathways of sustainable progress
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      Paul Beaufait on 29 Aug 14
       
      In this book..., ¶2
  • Without reflection, people tend to just assume their point of view is the right point of view and defend and argue from that point of view. Reflection is a key gateway that opens people to beginning to think together and move from just arguing for about who is right to collaboratively solving the problems we all face
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      Paul Beaufait on 29 Aug 14
       
      For professionals..., ¶3 learning systems thinking: reflection
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  • In terms of people’s careers and opportunities both as employees and entrepreneurs, I believe the combined foundation of social, emotional, and systemic intelligence will be pivotal
  • businesses know very well that the skill sets they need today and in the future are very different than those in the past
  • they will need students who can think for themselves, work in teams, work with cross-cultural boundaries, and especially work together to solve complex ill-defined problems
  • Paul Beaufait on 29 Aug 14
     
    Author interview by Sharlyn Lauby (2014.08/10) sharing "rationale ... [for] incorporating focus-related skill sets into education" (¶2).
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Hunkering down: Japan's higher education sector | Times Higher Education (THE) - 0 views

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    "The number of upper secondary school graduates in Japan has declined by 38 per cent since 1990, when the country's previously booming economy began to flatline, and job vacancies outnumber applicants by more than 60 per cent. Such factors have prompted questions about the country's ability to maintain a workforce capable of paying off the world's largest public debt; Japan's government owes around two-and-a-half times what its entire economy produces each year" (¶4, 2018.11.26).
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Schooling the World: Resources: Essays & articles - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 06 Oct 14
     
    Essays on this Schooling the World resource page (2014.10.06) include: The Other Way of Knowing To Hell With Good Intentions Education is Ignorance Do Indigenous Peoples Benefit from "Development?" Indigenising Curriculum: Questions Posed by Baiga Vidya Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing Childhood in an Indian Village
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Putnam (2001) on social capital - 0 views

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    "This paper starts with a discussion of definitions of social capital, then turns to issues in measurement, and finally, presents some evidence on the consequences of social capital" (¶ 1 [PDF]). Putnam, R. (2001). Social capital: Measurement and consequences. Canadian Journal of Policy Research, 2(1), 41-51. Retrieved from https://search.oecd.org/edu/innovation-education/1825848.pdf
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Raising proficiency in English pivotal to next gen's future | theSundaily - 0 views

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    "Education Ministry secretary general Tan Sri Madinah Mohamad said the future generations need to be equal or better in their English proficiency to compete in the rapidly changing globalised world" (Achariam, 2015). Achariam, Timothy. (2015, August 6). Raising proficiency in English pivotal to next gen's future. The Sun Daily [Kuala Lumpur]. Retrieved from http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1512360
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English as lingua franca gives Singapore a fighting chance | Features | Malay Mail Online - 0 views

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  • Adopting the international language of business, diplomacy, and science and technology was about the only way this resource-less tiny island could guarantee its survival after losing its economic hinterland in Malaysia. Unemployment was at 14 per cent and rising.
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      Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
       
      Main article, ¶2
  • Just as importantly, picking this race-neutral language demonstrated his government’s anti-communalistic stance, helping to keep the peace in a newborn nation made up of a polyglot-settler populace who had struggled for years with racial and religious strife.
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      Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
       
      Main article, ¶4
  • 
For the sake of building “a community that feels together”, Lee pushed through the bilingualism policy in 1966. All students had to learn their “mother tongue”, Mandarin, Malay or Tamil, depending on their race, as a second language, and this became a compulsory and critical examination subject in 1969.
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      Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
       
      Bilingualism, ¶1
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But the various initiatives Lee rolled out in subsequent years to put proficiency in mother tongue on par with that in English were to divide opinions, especially among the Chinese, even up to the present. Indeed, he described bilingualism in 2004 as the “most difficult” policy he had had to implement.
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      Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
       
      Imperfect implementation, ¶1
  • Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
     
    This article recap's policies that made English a national language of education and made other official languages required second languages.
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Who We Are | International Rescue Committee (IRC) - 0 views

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    "The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster" (Who We Are, The IRC: 83 years of history, ¶1, 2017.06.21).
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Empowered educators: How high-performing systems shape teacher quality around the world... - 0 views

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    "This brief examines the practices of recruitment and selection of teachers in five countries: Australia (specifically, New South Wales and Victoria), Canada (Alberta and Ontario), Finland, Shanghai, and Singapore. It describes features that are unique to each and underscores themes that are common to all" (p. 1).
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OER Case Studies - CC Wiki - 0 views

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    A Creative Commons wiki page showcasing open education resource projects.
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Beyond Knowing Facts, How Do We Get to a Deeper Level of Learning? | MindShift - 0 views

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  • The elements that make up this approach are not necessarily new — great teachers have been employing these tactics for years. But now there’s a movement to codify the different pieces that define the deeper learning approach, and to spread the knowledge from teacher to teacher, school to school in the form of a Deeper Learning MOOC (massive open online course), organized by a group of schools, non-profits, and sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation.
  • So what defines deeper learning? This group has identified six competencies: mastering content, critical thinking, effective written and oral communication, collaboration, learning how to learn, and developing academic mindsets.
  • “Before we assess, we need to know what we are assessing for,” said Marc Chun, program officer at the Hewlett Foundation. What does effective collaboration look like? What does it really look like to be a critical thinker? These skill are more oriented towards process than content, making them difficult to assess in a standardized way.
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    Schwartz (2014.02.28) acknowledged that approaches fostering deeper learning are not new, and pointed out related competencies derived from a MOOC. She also highlighted challenges of assessing such competencies.
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Voices into Action - Home - 0 views

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    "[A] wealth of free curriculum-based teaching resources and online tools to help you teach your students about prejudice, human rights and social justice" (Welcome to Voices into Action, ¶1).
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Is paid research time a vanishing privilege for modern academics? | Times Higher Educat... - 0 views

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    "While 39 per cent of those surveyed by THE say that the 40/40/20 workload model is still the ideal breakdown, compared with 38 per cent who do not, a massive 80 per cent say it is not realistically achievable in the time contractually available" (Mayo, 2019, Less time for research but more time on work, ¶9). Mayo, Nick. (2019.07.25). Is paid research time a vanishing privilege for modern academics? Retrieved from https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/paid-research-time-vanishing-privilege-modern-academics
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PISA 2015 Results (Volume III) - Students' Well-Being - en - OECD - 0 views

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    OECD (2017). PISA 2015 Results (Volume III): Students' Well-Being. Paris, FR: OECD Publishing. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264273856-en
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