Rethinking Schooling for the 21st Century

List of Tables, Figures and Boxes
Tables
Table 1.1 Categories of global citizenship identified by Oxley and Morris
(2013) based on prevailing literature 36
Table 1.2 Types of Global Citizenship Education by Gaudelli and Heilman
(2009)37
Table 3.1 Number of institutions, teachers and learners of the Japanese
language in the Republic of Korea, China and Mongolia 94
Table 5.1 Role of agriculture in South Asian economies 140
Table 6.1. Teaching/learning approaches in all coded documents
(number of references) 197
Table A.1 Overall structure of the coding scheme 230
Figures
Figure 0.1 Asia: The diverse continent 4
Figure 0.2 Countries covered by this study 6
Figure 0.3 Overview of the drafting process 7
Figure 0.4 Overall governance structure of the study 8
Figure 1.1 Percentage of instructional hours allocated to core and non-core
subjects Grades 1-9 32
Figure 1.2 The ladder of sustainable development 39
Figure 2.1 Heatmaps across 22 countries at a glance 44
Figure 2.2 The prevalence of the concept ‘conflict resolution’ 46
Figure 2.3 The prevalence of the concept ‘climate change’ 48
Figure 2.4 The prevalence of the concept ‘human resource development’ 49
Figure 2.5 The prevalence of the concept ‘gender equality’ 52
Figure 2.6 The prevalence of the concept ‘freedom and civil liberties’ 53
Figure 2.7 The prevalence of the concept ‘multiculturalism’ 55
Figure 3.1 References to ‘critical thinking’ and ‘creative thinking’ in
primary and secondary subject curricula across China,
Japan and the Republic of Korea 64
Figure 3.2 References to ‘nation as privileged referent of identity’
in primary and secondary subject curricula in China,
Japan and the Republic of Korea 78
Figure 3.3 References to ‘culture of peace and non-violence’
in primary and secondary subject curricula in China,
Japan and the Republic of Korea 81
Figure 3.4. References to ‘respect/appreciation for diversity’
in primary and secondary subject curricula in China,
Japan and the Republic of Korea 85
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The State of Education for Peace, Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship in Asia
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