Redesigning the 3R's and Core Academic Subjects to Improve Learning, Teaching and Assessment in the New Learning Paradigm

Title
Redesigning the 3R's and Core Academic Subjects to Improve Learning, Teaching and Assessment in the New Learning Paradigm
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Kivunja, Charles
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3520-0745
Email: ckivunja@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ckivunja
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Centre for Promoting Ideas
Place of publication
United States of America
UNE publication id
une:17041
Abstract
Pedagogies that made teaching, learning, assessment and curricula of the 20th century the great success that it was were designed and implemented with an emphasis on what are generally referred to as the 3R's of basic education, namely reading, -riting, -rithmetic and related subjects. Those pedagogies produced graduates that were well skilled for the Industrial Age economy. However, mainly due to the ubiquitous penetration of microelectronics and digital technologies into every day living, trades, businesses and occupations, a New Learning Paradigm is needed to equip graduates with the skills they need to succeed in the Knowledge Age economy. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) (P21, 2009) conceptualises those skills as consisting of not just the traditional core subjects, but also what they characterize as the Learning and Innovations skills, the Career and Life skills, as well as the Digital Literacies skills. They argue that the traditional core skills need to be redesigned as explained in this paper to form part of the New Learning Paradigm.
Link
Citation
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 5(1), p. 30-42
ISSN
2221-0989
2220-8488
Start page
30
End page
42

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