An important issue of postmodern educational matter is the inquiry of supporting and training competent persons as active operators, both in the belonging field or in similar fields (and, why not, even in different fields as transdisciplinary connectors). Otherwise, we consider that the...

The current paper is concerned with an analysis of main challenges to contemporary school education and of examples of good responses to these challenges in different countries. The authors use results of international surveys of quality of education and comparative educational research to...