The claim on education: Developing 21st century skills through a constructivist learning design From educational researchers to business men and politicians, society is calling for so-called key competences in order to be able to deal with any sort of complex problems that dominate all facets of our society and business world (Pink 2010, Gardner 2010). Those key competences involve knowledge, skills, attitudes and values (Weinert 2003). Harvard professor Tony Wagner calls them the “seven survival skills for careers, college, and citizenship” (Wagner 2011):
• critical thinking and problem solving;
• collaboration across networks and leading by influence;
• agility and adaptability;
• initiative and entrepreneurialism;
• effective oral and written communication;
• accessing and analysing information;
• curiosity and imagination.