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Block 3.5C 21st Century Education
Selected Readings
Niek Kooren
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Project 1: 21st century skills
What are 21st century skills?
Toward an understanding of 21st-century skills: From a systematic review -Chen, 2021
Concepts: The Partnership for 21st Century Learning in the United States broadly conceived
“21st-century skills” as things that “students should master to succeed in work and life in the
twenty-frst century.” The KSAVE model from Assessment & Teaching of 21st Century Skills
(ATC21S) considered only skills beyond disciplinary knowledge.
Aim: What skills had been considered as “21st-century skills” in the existing educational
research literature?
Subjects: A total of 21 sources were retained in the final pool. The coding and synthesis
procedures considered these sources in addition to 45 primary sources they cited that provided
specific details concerning “21st-century skills.”
Design: The sources included in this systematic literature review were
published ones that met the following inclusion criteria: (1) Having been
released in English from 2000 up to 2017; (2) Having been released as
academic journal papers or reports that were indexed in research databases;
and (3) Having reviewed or cited more than one framework about “21st-
century skills” in educational systems.
Discussion: The majority of the selected studies on “21st-century skills”
addressed five out of the seven constructed categories: Foundational
Literacies and Skills, Individual Productivity, Relation with Others,
Social-emotional Well- being, and Ethics, Morals, and Citizenship.
• A relatively smaller number of studies addressed the skills that belong to these two
categories: Physical Well-being and Lifelong Learning.
• The ICT skills or digital literacy, specified by the category Individual Productivity in
this paper, had been singled out by many researchers as unique in the 21st-century
context
, Niek Kooren 559855nk
Block 3.5C 21st Century Education
Selected Readings
Niek Kooren
,Niek Kooren 559855nk
Project 1: 21st century skills
What are 21st century skills?
Toward an understanding of 21st-century skills: From a systematic review -Chen, 2021
Concepts: The Partnership for 21st Century Learning in the United States broadly conceived
“21st-century skills” as things that “students should master to succeed in work and life in the
twenty-frst century.” The KSAVE model from Assessment & Teaching of 21st Century Skills
(ATC21S) considered only skills beyond disciplinary knowledge.
Aim: What skills had been considered as “21st-century skills” in the existing educational
research literature?
Subjects: A total of 21 sources were retained in the final pool. The coding and synthesis
procedures considered these sources in addition to 45 primary sources they cited that provided
specific details concerning “21st-century skills.”
Design: The sources included in this systematic literature review were
published ones that met the following inclusion criteria: (1) Having been
released in English from 2000 up to 2017; (2) Having been released as
academic journal papers or reports that were indexed in research databases;
and (3) Having reviewed or cited more than one framework about “21st-
century skills” in educational systems.
Discussion: The majority of the selected studies on “21st-century skills”
addressed five out of the seven constructed categories: Foundational
Literacies and Skills, Individual Productivity, Relation with Others,
Social-emotional Well- being, and Ethics, Morals, and Citizenship.
• A relatively smaller number of studies addressed the skills that belong to these two
categories: Physical Well-being and Lifelong Learning.
• The ICT skills or digital literacy, specified by the category Individual Productivity in
this paper, had been singled out by many researchers as unique in the 21st-century
context
, Niek Kooren 559855nk
