International Symposium in Capital Normal University

International symposium exploring how educational innovation emerges in unregulated curricular spaces across four national contexts, in Asia and Europe.
This study day investigates how “soft skills” (with a focus on critical thinking and digital literacy) travel through global policy references and are reworked into curriculum realities in four contrasted systems: China, France, England, and Finland. The central hypothesis is that these competencies do not simply “add” transversal goals to existing subjects; they can reshape what counts as valid knowledge, legitimate reasoning, and teachable citizenship—often in under-regulated curricular “grey zones” where experimentation and negotiation occur.