Learning to Innovate
Subtitle: Learning regions
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9789264033849
Subjects: Education
Description: In OECD countries, the number of cities and regions which put learning, education, research and innovation at the heart of their development strategies is rapidly increasing and bringing together governments, the private sector and society. The growing interest in learning cities and regions reflects the fundamental shifts which are taking place. Cities are becoming more knowledge-based and organised as never before around learning and human skills. Today, these factors are central not only to individual success but also to gaining national, regional and urban economic advantage. Comparative advantage is increasingly dependent on human resources, knowledge creation, and continuous, incremental innovation rather than on access to physical capital and raw materials. This book presents different approaches to regional development based on knowledge and innovation in Andalusia, Spain (and some other countries). Potential applications to areas similar to Andalusia are also given. The study contains a synthesis of the presentations and discussions of the conference held in Malaga, Spain, on the 30th September and 1st October 1999, that focused on the current situation of the region, analysing its evolution over the last twenty years, and evaluating the policies already implemented in the region. A diagnosis of the present socio-economic system has been made in order to measure the applicability of policies that would help Andalusia to develop into a learning region, built on human, social, cultural and "synergetic" capital.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. The Search for Innovative Learning Environments by Francisco Benavides, Hanna Dumont and David Istance (OECD Secretariat); title: Chapter 2. Optimising Learning: Implications of Learning Sciences Research by R. Keith Sawyer; title: Chapter 3. Toward Research-based Innovation by Carl Bereiter and Marlene Scardamalia; title: Chapter 4. The Contribution of Alternative Education by Anne Sliwka; title: Chapter 5. Situated Pedagogies, Curricular Justice and Democratic Teaching by Mar Rodríguez-Romero; title: Chapter 6. The Construction of Learning Environments: Lessons from the Mexico Exploratory Phase by Juan Cassassus, María de Ibarrola, Lilia Pérez-Franco, Juana M. Sancho-Gil, Marcela Tovar-Gómez, Margarita Zorrilla; title: Chapter 7. What Makes Innovations Work on the Ground? by María Cecilia Fierro-Evans; title: Chapter 8. The Dynamics of Innovation: Why Does it Survive and What Makes it Function by Inés Aguerrondo; title: Chapter 9. Open Learning: A Systems-driven Model of Innovation for Education by Tom Bentley; title: Annex A. Summaries of the Four Mexican Case Studies