ACES - A Community-centred Educational Model for Developing Social Resilience

The OECD (2018) emphasises that to navigate an increasingly uncertain and ambiguous world, young people will need to develop curiosity, imagination, resilience, and self-regulation. In developing countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam, efforts to maintain sustainable growth in their respective economies hinges on a progressing and updated system of education that is more transformational (Ilie & Rose, 2016). In this symposium we will present findings to date from ACES - A Community-centred Educational Model for Developing Social Resilience, funded by the UKRI-ESRC under the Global Challenges Research Fund, led by academics at a UK University. Across the four papers the project partners will discuss how ACES has engaged with young people and teachers in experimenting with playful education for facilitating localised creative thinking, problem-solving and frugal learning.