Overview
Global Competencies
In 2016, the Ministers of Education articulated six broad global competencies. These competencies, as defined by CMEC, are an overarching set of attitudes, skills, knowledge and values that are interdependent, interdisciplinary, and leveraged in a variety of situations both locally and globally. They provide learners with the abilities to meet the shifting and ongoing demands of life, work and learning; to be active and responsive in their communities; to understand diverse perspectives; and to act on issues of global significance.
Context
Building on strong foundations of numeracy and literacy, global competencies at the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) is a pan-Canadian effort to prepare students for a complex and unpredictable future with rapidly changing political, social, economic, technological, and ecological landscapes.
Systems-Level Framework on Global Competencies
The framework, which is nonprescriptive, was developed to support the work of change agents who currently foster the integration of global competencies in their education systems. The global competency development effort in education is relatively new. This is a voluntary reference framework.
Literature Review
The development of the Pan-Canadian Systems-Level Framework on Global Competencies started with an extensive international and Canadian review of the literature that focused on the trend toward global competencies and competency-based education.
Domains of Change
System-level transformation supporting global competency integration needs to focus on an iterative process that builds and grows as it develops and transforms. Change of this kind is complex and calls for intentionality and...
Assessing for Change.
At the heart of this document are seven organizing concepts called the domains of change. They do not prescribe a path forward. Instead, they are focus areas to be considered as provinces and territories develop their own strategies for integrating the global competencies.
