Abstract
There is a push to adopt educational practices fostering holistic student development in K-12 due to current uncertain times. To understand what these new practices entail, we take a global policy perspective and identify trends that will likely shape the future of education focused on holistic student development. We identified eight trends for future-focused education and discuss how these can be mapped to holistic student development. These trends represent three interconnected dimensions of education – Why (goals for education), How (the design and organization of education), and What (the content of education). We identified 20 sub-trends that reflect the multifaceted nature of the trends. Teacher capabilities required to facilitate the implementation of these trends were described as well. These provide a robust base for (re)imagining how to prepare K-12 students (and teachers) as change-agents instead of only a workforce.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2025 |
| Editors | Antti Rajala, Arturo Cortez, Riika Hofmann, Alfredo Jornet, Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Lina Markauskaite |
| Place of Publication | Helsinki, Finland |
| Publisher | International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) |
| Pages | 1879-1883 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 979-8-9906980-3-1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2025 |