Innovating to Learn, Learning to Innovate [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Centre for Educational Research and Innovation.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2008.
OECD economies have experienced the transformation from their traditional industrial base to the knowledge era, in which learning and innovation are central. Yet, many of today’s schools have not caught up: they continue to operate as they did in the earlier decades of the 20 century. This book summarises and discusses key findings from the learning sciences, shedding light on the cognitive and social processes that can be used to redesign classrooms to make them highly effective learning environments. It explores concrete examples in OECD countries, from alternative schools to specific cases in Mexico, in which the actors are seeking to break the mould and realise the principles emerging from learning science research. The book also asks how these insights can inspire educational reform for the knowledge era, in which optimising learning is the driving aim and in which innovation is both the widespread catalyst of change and the defining result.
"Centre for Educational Research and Innovation."
Includes bibliographical references.
What Makes Innovations Work on the Ground? -- The Contribution of Alternative Education -- The Construction of Learning Environments Lessons from the Mexico Exploratory Phase -- Situated Pedagogies, Curricular Justice and Democratic Teaching -- The Dynamics of Innovation Why Does it Survive and What Makes it Function -- The Search for Innovative Learning Environments -- Toward Research-based Innovation -- Open Learning A Systems-driven Model of Innovation for Education -- Annex A -- Optimising Learning Implications of Learning Sciences Research -- Executive Summary.
OECD economies have experienced the transformation from their traditional industrial base to the knowledge era, in which learning and innovation are central. Yet, many of today’s schools have not caught up: they continue to operate as they did in the earlier decades of the 20 century. This book summarises and discusses key findings from the learning sciences, shedding light on the cognitive and social processes that can be used to redesign classrooms to make them highly effective learning environments. It explores concrete examples in OECD countries, from alternative schools to specific cases in Mexico, in which the actors are seeking to break the mould and realise the principles emerging from learning science research. The book also asks how these insights can inspire educational reform for the knowledge era, in which optimising learning is the driving aim and in which innovation is both the widespread catalyst of change and the defining result.
Learning.
Educational innovations.