Innovating to learn, learning to innovate.
Contributors: Centre for Educational Research and Innovation.; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Publisher: OECD; OCDE; OECD Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9789264047976
Subjects: Learning; Educational innovations
Description: 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.
Notes: "Centre for Educational Research and Innovation."

Includes bibliographical references.

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