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Why we need to stop talking about 21st century skills
November 30, 2021
Over the past decades ‘twenty-first century skills’ has become a widely, and uncritically accepted, educational meme. Bill Lucas argues in this Centre for Strategic Education seminar paper that four decades on, the phrase is increasingly irritating. Its use of the word ‘skill’ is unhelpful. Its refusal to distinguish between skills that are eternally useful, as opposed to those which are legitimate responses to the world we live in now, is lazy.