Preparing Science Teachers for Tomorrow With Transversal Competencies

Abstract

The education system necessitates preparing today's children for the needs of tomorrow, and more so in our changing society educated by a schooling system that is agile and flexible in preparing students for jobs yet to be invented. Education systems may no longer be required to teach students content, and instead need to focus on giving students skills to curate information and demonstrate their capacity to be critical and creative thinkers, problem solvers, communicators, and collaborators. Moreover, these skills will be predominantly useful for knowledge acquisition and the creation of science subjects. Are we preparing students for this new world of ever-increasing demands for knowledge? Are we creating thinkers and active learners? This chapter determines how we can create learners who can demonstrate these transversal competencies and substantiates our claims based on research findings where authors searched beyond ‘knowledge concepts' and sought to create more agile and flexible science learners who are prepared for some of the challenges posed by the 4th Industrial revolution.