Transversal Competences in Education for Sustainable Development and International Solidarity – A book review

Abstract

In the current educational scenario of training students for the 21st century, when teaching methodologies are rapidly changing to suit the more and more challenging demands, there is a stringent need to equip pupils, students, teachers, educators, and not only, with the adequate skills to succeed in their activities. Particularly teachers, teacher trainers and trainee teachers, since they are the real protagonists of change when it comes to educating and shaping the society they live in and bringing up responsible and actively engaged citizens. In a year like no other, this need has become even more obvious in the case of the recent pandemic, which forced teachers to adjust their capabilities to the new environment and to resort to reskilling and upskilling strategies, so as to better cope with the unique, unprecedented educational setting. In this context, the book edited by Monica Tilea, Olivier Morin and Oana-Adriana Duță, and entitled Transversal Competences in Education for Sustainable Development and International Solidarity advocates for the use of inter- and transdisciplinary educational tools in developing and assessing transversal competences in classroom practice. It materializes the results of the research carried out in the Erasmus+ project Acteurs du Territoire pour une Éducation à la Citoyenneté Mondiale (ACTECIM) by a team of academics with solid background in educational sciences: Olivier Morin and Sandie Bernard from the Claude Bernard University of Lyon 1 (France), Davide Della Rina, Roberto Trinchero, Selena Notaro and Alessio Tomassone from the University of Turin (Italy), and Monica Tilea, Claudiu Bunăiașu and Aida Stoian from the University of Craiova (Romania)