The Catalan issue is a global one. How should policy encourage innovation? In which strands should hit? In which way?

Good question. In fact, key question. We stil using methods and item of evaluation from other the industrial culture to consider the postindustrial society.

Our bagagge is a handicap and the new insight is not yet embedded. But, in my opinion, there are things in the tradition of tem we can take advantage. For instance, the constructivist pedagogical theories where is defined one method very helpful to spread innovation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Constructivism_%28Learning_Theory%29)

And the 2.0 web bring us to spreading our creativity, solidarity and flexibility. An example of flexibility: the competences. We can say that all the longlife learning competences could be one quality: flexibility?



almacme wrote:
> "... a number of studies indicate that performance of the Catalonian school system in terms of exam results is insufficient ... "
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> The question here is: What do exams really measure? And is what they measure related to 1) collaborative working 2) flexibility 3) creativity? If exam results do not take into consideration these competences (and they often don't) it may be that improving them will not necessarily improve exam results. Some studies show, however, that developing innovation in schools does improve motivation (to learn) and that in turn has a positive impact on exam performance.

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