Do Education Curricular Frameworks Reflect the Consensus About Key 21st Century Skills? Evidence From Canada (65900)
Session Chair: Linda White
Friday, January 6, 2023 (11:45)
Session: Session 2
Room: 322B
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
The last few decades - labeled the 4th Industrial Revolution - have brought about unprecedented change in nearly every aspect of work. These changes in turn have created new demands on primary, secondary, and post-secondary education systems to prepare students for this changing world of work. While significant effort has been made to understand how these technological innovations are anticipated to affect labour markets and how to prepare for those anticipated disruptions, much less research exists on how educational institutions need to adapt to support the changing nature of work. This paper begins by providing an overview regarding what we know about educating for life and the workplace of the future, drawing on both scholarly research and a growing grey literature produced by a host of policy-related organizations. The paper then examines the empirical case of Canada, which consistently is ranked a high-quality education system based on PISA assessments. The paper uses on a dataset of primary and secondary education curriculum frameworks covering the period 2000-2021 (about 1,500 curriculum frameworks covering all subjects and grades taught). Using natural language processing techniques, the paper examines whether and to what extent those curriculum frameworks provide guidance about teaching what the scholarly and grey literature identifies as key "21st century" skills (as opposed to traditional skills such as reading, writing, and arithmetic). It examines cross-provincial and territorial variation in the content of these curricula frameworks as well as change over time.
Authors:
Linda White, University of Toronto, Canada
Elizabeth Dhuey, University of Toronto, Canada
I Younan An, University of Toronto, Canada
Michal Perlman, University of Toronto, Canada
About the Presenter(s)
Professor Linda White is a University Professor/Principal Lecturer at University of Toronto in Canada
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