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Tue 06 Dec - Sun 11 Dec, 2011
Harvard University Principal Investigator, Interdisciplinary Studies Project, Project Zero, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Biography:
Veronica Boix Mansilla is a senior research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she also chairs the Future of Learning Institute. Her research examines the conditions that enable experts and young learners to produce quality interdisciplinary work addressing problems of contemporary global significance. Her most recent work has focused on defining global competence; studying the development global consciousness among youth in North America, Kenya and India; and developing schools' capacity to educate for global competence in Portland Maine-a hub for refugee and migrant communities. Veronica is an advisor for the International Baccalaureate, Asia Society, Association of American Colleges and Universities, and the Council of Chief State School Officers. She has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the University of Buenos Aires. Her most recent book Educating for Global Competence: Preparing our youth to engage the world (2011), written with Tony Jackson at the Asia Society and the Council of Chief State School Officers in the United States, articulates a definition of global competence.
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Media files from Veronica Boix Mansilla The Changing Challenges Facing Teachers in a Digital Age on FM4 Austrian Radio
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