scholarly journals The innovation challenge: A blueprint for American competitiveness in the twenty-first-century global economy?

2012 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-402
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Hemphill
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Innovation Challenge

scholarly journals Physics education research for 21st century learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Bao ◽  
Kathleen Koenig
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Physics Education ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
First Century ◽  
Physics Education Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Physics Courses ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century Skills ◽  
New Education

AbstractEducation goals have evolved to emphasize student acquisition of the knowledge and attributes necessary to successfully contribute to the workforce and global economy of the twenty-first Century. The new education standards emphasize higher end skills including reasoning, creativity, and open problem solving. Although there is substantial research evidence and consensus around identifying essential twenty-first Century skills, there is a lack of research that focuses on how the related subskills interact and develop over time. This paper provides a brief review of physics education research as a means for providing a context towards future work in promoting deep learning and fostering abilities in high-end reasoning. Through a synthesis of the literature around twenty-first Century skills and physics education, a set of concretely defined education and research goals are suggested for future research, along with how these may impact the next generation physics courses and how physics should be taught in the future.

The Twenty-First Century Agricultural Land Rush

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Thaler
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
First Century ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Land Grab ◽  
Investment Capital ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Political Economic

The 2007–2008 global food crisis has been followed by a rapid acceleration in large-scale agricultural land deals, which activists have labeled a “global land grab.” This chapter explores the origins of this twenty-first century agricultural land rush, its geography, and the responses it has engendered. The origins of the land rush are located in interlinked food, financial, and ecological crises that are indicative of fundamental shifts in the global political economy. In response to these crises, land grabbing represents an effort to reconstruct a stable political-economic order, both on the part of investment capital seeking to relaunch accumulation and on the part of political actors and companies seeking to secure stable supplies of food and energy. The geography of the land rush is analyzed through the interrelated variables of land availability, the structural position of a country in the global economy, and a country’s domestic institutional structure. Finally, the main theoretical positions in the debate over land deals are linked to distinct political responses. The real historical significance of the structural changes behind the agricultural land rush suggests that the implications of the land rush will be both durable and systemic.

scholarly journals Twenty-first Century Education: Transformative Education for Sustainability and Responsible Citizenship

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
David V. J. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Transformative Education ◽  
First Century ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Waste Production ◽  
Conventional Teaching ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Global Population

Abstract Many ministries of education focus on twenty-first century education but unless they are looking at this topic through a sustainability lens, they will be missing some of its most important elements. The usual emphasis on developing skills for employability in the current global economy begs the question whether the global economy is itself sustainable over the course of this century. According to the World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD) whose membership comprises 29 of the largest, most important companies on the planet, it is not. Continuing on the current development path would require approximately 2.3 planets earth to support existing levels of resource and energy use, and waste production, projected out for a global population which will reach 9 billion by 2050. And yet most discussions of 21st century education are premised on servicing, rather than transforming, the current global economy. This paper explores the opportunities and benefits of connecting the discourse on twentyfirst century education with Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) which seeks to prepare learners for the varied and interrelated environmental, social, and economic challenges they will meet as they confront a changing world. ESD emphasizes futures thinking and strategic planning that will enable learners to help create and flourish in a more sustainable economy. Conventional teaching models must also shift to a “transformative” style of education for the twenty-first century in order for humankind to learn how to live more sustainably on this planet.

scholarly journals In Spaces of Marginalization: Dispossession, Incorporation, and Resistance in Bolivia

2013 ◽  
pp. 108-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent Z. Kaup
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
First Century ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Spaces Of Resistance ◽  
Twenty First Century

Recent scholarship conceptualizing primitive accumulation as an ongoing process in global capitalism has noted the difficulties faced in bringing struggles against exploitation and dispossession together. While some scholars suggest that an 'organic link" exists between these conflicts. they have yet to clearly specify the conditions and mechanisms through which such a link can form. Examining cases in Bolivia at the turn of the twenty-first century. I argue that struggles against exploitation and dispossession do not merely converge when facing a common oppressor. but also as the changing forms and geographies of exploitation and dispossession bring people together in more proximate locations. I illustrate that the changing means through which Bolivia was incorporated into the global economy enhanced levels of marginalization and subsequently resulted in patterns of migration that led to a convergence of peasant and proletarian struggles. As both segments of Bolivian society were excluded from the country's major economic sectors. they migrated to the places where they thought they could best satisfy their livelihood needs. But as people continually struggled to meet these needs, these places became spaces of marginalization, and eventually, spaces of resistance.

scholarly journals From Piketty’s Capital to Marx’s das Kapital

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Øjvind Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
First Century ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century

Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has created a very new platform for a discussion of the global economy. There is possibly no other book on economy which has been published in so many languages, printed in so many copies, and has found its way to such a varied global public. Piketty’s Capital has been discussed in many high ranked academic journals, and at the same time, it has come out to a broader audience with advertisements in places like the underground public transportation in metropolises around the world. The title of the book is also very ambitious in so far as the title Capital claims to be a follow up of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital for the twenty-first century. Piketty is similar to Marx in his ambition to give a large historical, or a world historical perspective on the significance of capitalist economy for the development of global society. Given this background it could be interesting to consider the relations between Piketty’s Capital and Marx’s Das Kapital.

The Digital Tech Deal: a socialist framework for the twenty-first century

Race & Class ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-84
Author(s):  
Michael Kwet
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
First Century ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
Digital Capitalism ◽  
Privacy Laws ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Political Economic

The twenty-first century global economy is largely driven by Big Tech and, more broadly, digital capitalism. This is a global phenomenon, with US power at the centre preying on global markets through the process of digital colonialism. Mainstream antidotes to the ills of Big Tech and digital capitalism are US/Eurocentric and revolve around a collection of liberal and progressive capitalist reforms, including anti-trust, limited privacy laws, unionisation of Big Tech, algorithmic discrimination and content moderation – all of which are conceived within a capitalist framework which ignores or neglects digital colonialism and the twenty-first century ecological crisis, despite their analytical and moral centrality to contemporary political economy. This author argues that a combination of political, economic and social alternatives based on a Digital Tech Deal are needed to turn the tide against digital colonisation, entailing the socialisation of knowledge and infrastructure; passing socialist laws that support digital socialism; and new narratives about the tech ecosystem. These solutions are to be nested within an anti-colonial, eco-socialist framework that embraces degrowth to ensure environmental sustainability and socioeconomic justice.

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