Audacious Education Purposes : How Governments Transform the Goals of Education Systems

This open access book offers a comparative study of eight ambitious national reforms that sought to create opportunities for students to gain the necessary breath of skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

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).