Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration: Assessment, Certification, and Promotion of 21st Century Skills for the Future of Work and Education

Branden Thornhill-Miller; Anaëlle Camarda; Maxence Mercier; Jean-Marie Burkhardt; Tiffany Morisseau; Samira Bourgeois-Bougrine; Florent Vinchon; Stephanie El Hayek; Myriam Augereau-Landais; Florence Mourey; Cyrille Feybesse; Daniel Sundquist; Todd Lubart

doi:10.3390/jintelligence11030054

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Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration: Assessment, Certification, and Promotion of 21st Century Skills for the Future of Work and Education

Branden Thornhill-Miller Anaëlle Camarda

Maxence Mercier Jean-Marie Burkhardt

Tiffany Morisseau

Samira Bourgeois-Bougrine Florent Vinchon Stephanie El Hayek Myriam Augereau-Landais Florence Mourey Cyrille Feybesse Daniel Sundquist Todd Lubart

Journal of Intelligence Vol. 11 No. 3 pp. 54 · MDPI AG

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Abstract

This article addresses educational challenges posed by the future of work, examining “21st century skills”, their conception, assessment, and valorization. It focuses in particular on key soft skill competencies known as the “4Cs”: creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication. In a section on each C, we provide an overview of assessment at the level of individual performance, before focusing on the less common assessment of systemic support for the development of the 4Cs that can be measured at the institutional level (i.e., in schools, universities, professional training programs, etc.). We then present the process of official assessment and certification known as “labelization”, suggesting it as a solution both for establishing a publicly trusted assessment of the 4Cs and for promoting their cultural valorization. Next, two variations of the “International Institute for Competency Development’s 21st Century Skills Framework” are presented. The first of these comprehensive systems allows for the assessment and labelization of the extent to which development of the 4Cs is supported by a formal educational program or institution. The second assesses informal educational or training experiences, such as playing a game. We discuss the overlap between the 4Cs and the challenges of teaching and institutionalizing them, both of which may be assisted by adopting a dynamic interactionist model of the 4Cs—playfully entitled “Crea-Critical-Collab-ication”—for pedagogical and policy-promotion purposes. We conclude by briefly discussing opportunities presented by future research and new technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

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Published: Mar 15, 2023
Vol/Issue: 11(3)
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Authors

B

Branden Thornhill-Miller

Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; International Institute for Competency Development, 75001 Paris, France

A

Anaëlle Camarda

LaPEA, Université Paris Cité and Univ Gustave Eiffel, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France; Institut Supérieur Maria Montessori, 94130 Nogent-Sur-Marne, France

M

Maxence Mercier

LaPEA, Université Paris Cité and Univ Gustave Eiffel, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France

J

Jean-Marie Burkhardt

LaPEA, Univ Gustave Eiffel and Université Paris Cité, CEDEX, 78008 Versailles, France

T

Tiffany Morisseau

LaPEA, Université Paris Cité and Univ Gustave Eiffel, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France; Strane Innovation, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

S

Samira Bourgeois-Bougrine

LaPEA, Université Paris Cité and Univ Gustave Eiffel, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France

F

Florent Vinchon

LaPEA, Université Paris Cité and Univ Gustave Eiffel, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France

S

Stephanie El Hayek

AFNOR International, 93210 Saint-Denis, France

M

Myriam Augereau-Landais

AFNOR International, 93210 Saint-Denis, France

F

Florence Mourey

LaPEA, Université Paris Cité and Univ Gustave Eiffel, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France

C

Cyrille Feybesse

Centre Hospitalier Guillaume Regnier, Université de Rennes 1, 35200 Rennes, France

D

Daniel Sundquist

LaPEA, Université Paris Cité and Univ Gustave Eiffel, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France

T

Todd Lubart

LaPEA, Université Paris Cité and Univ Gustave Eiffel, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Cite This Article

Branden Thornhill-Miller, Anaëlle Camarda, Maxence Mercier, et al. (2023). Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration: Assessment, Certification, and Promotion of 21st Century Skills for the Future of Work and Education. Journal of Intelligence, 11(3), 54. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11030054

Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration: Assessment, Certification, and Promotion of 21st Century Skills for the Future of Work and Education

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