21st Century International Mindedness: Scenarios of its Conceptions and Modes of Assessment

This report provides a framework for making reasoned arguments for and against particular conceptions and modes of assessment regarding International-Mindedness based on research undertaking with my colleagues in IB schools Australia, China and India (Sriprakash, Singh and Qi, 2014). The report provides a framework for the conception and assessment of International-Mindedness based on a review of the many existing attempts to do so (Singh & Qi, 2013). The skeleton for a new framework is provided to invite further debate, research and development. Three key points are central to this framework: 1. bringing forward Non-Western/Western concepts through the conception and assessment of International-Mindedness; 2. focusing on capabilities in the conception and assessment of International-Mindedness; 3. conceptualising the assessment of International-Mindedness as genuinely International.