Literature review of 21ST-century Skills and Competencies comparing with required competencies in national educational program - General Educational Programme in Vietnam

Abstract

The overview of 24 documents, aims to gain 4 main contents: 1) An overview of the definitions of the 21st-century skills and\or competencies; 2) an Overview of 21st-century competencies frameworks; 3) Overview of 21st-century component competencies; 4) Comparison of 21st-century competencies with required competencies in the National Education Programme – General Educational Programmes in Viet Nam. The results indicate that: 1) Definitions of 21st-century skills as well as competencies in each research have many different expressions but still have some commonalities; 2) There are many sub-competencies in 21stcentury competency frameworks, but there is no consensus on the naming and classification of these sub-competencies; 3) There are 45 detail competencies were mentioned in 13 typical competency frameworks, in which, top 10 mentioned competencies including: Collaboration or teamwork, technology literacy, creativity and innovation, citizenship, information literacy, communication, self - direct, critical thinking, problem solving, management or leadership; 4) All 13 competencies in the National Education Programme – General Educational are mentioned in the typical 21st-century competency frameworks, in which, 6 competencies belong to top 10, 6 competencies are in the top 20 of the most mentioned 21st century competencies.