Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes: Understanding global competence through the lens of the OECD
By Hamish Curry, Executive Director, Asia Education Foundation
The first edition of AEF Investigates looks at the recent OECD Report on Global Competence, following the inclusion of a global competence component in the 2018 worldwide PISA Test. The OECD’s Report captures insights into global competence for the 66 education jurisdictions which contributed student response data for hundreds of thousands of 15-year-olds.
However, Australia did not participate in the main Global Competence Test – only the Questionnaire component. It is not clear why in a culturally diverse and globally connected country like Australia decision-makers are not interested in how our next generation are developing global competence. Australian policymakers trust PISA to tell us how effective we are in literacy, maths and science – our students’ global competence should be equally valued.
High performing education systems including Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Canada scored very highly across most of the dimensions of Global Competence.
Key findings in the Report include:
AEF recommends six key actions from this report to build global competence in the Australian education system:
Full report to be published on 30 November.
Opening quote Andreas Schleicher, OECD Director of Education and Skills.