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Educating for innovation- driven societies

Explore the role of education in fostering innovation and developing skills for an innovation-driven society. Topics include the impact of qualified personnel, skills/qualifications for innovation, changing demands in education, individual skills for innovation, curriculum design, pedagogy, assessment, STEM and arts education, and developing tools for assessing 21st century skills.

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Educating for innovation- driven societies

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  1. Paris, 26 April 2012 Educating for innovation-drivensocieties Dirk Van Damme Head of Division OECD Directorate for Education

  2. Skills and education for innovation« 21st Century Skills »

  3. Skills for innovation • Is innovation hampered by a lack of qualified personnel? • Whatskills/qualifications foster innovation in the economy? • Has innovation led to a change in the level and type of educationdemanded? • Are certain uses of workforceskillsassociatedwith more innovation?

  4. Individualskills for innovation • Education systems have to produceskills for three modes of innovation: • Elite model (R&D, breakthrough) • Democratic model (organisationallearning, incremental) • User-driven model • Whatskillsshalleveryone have in an innovation-driven society? • Adapt to creative destruction (LLL) • Readiness for tertiaryeducation • Participate in innovation process as user and producer

  5. Whatindividualskillsshouldeducationsystemsfoster?

  6. Education for innovation • Curriculum • How broad or narrow? • Shouldsomespecificfieldsbeprivileged? • Pedagogy • Are somepedagogies more effective in fosteringsimultaneously all the sets of skills? • Assessment • How to give equal weight in assessments to all sets of skills for innovation? • Can we develop new tools that will help teachers to assess progress in creativity, critical thinking, and social and behavioural skills?

  7. Educating for innovativesocieties • Conversation with Howard Gardner • STEM education • How to teachthem to developsimultaneously all the sets of skills in mathematics and in science? • Arts education • What do we know about the impact of arts education on skilldevelopment? • Whatroledoesitplay in innovation more generally? • Developing new tools for assessing 21st century skills • Creativity • Collaborative problem-solving (PISA 2012 and 2015) • Other sets of skill

  8. THANK YOU www.oecd.org/edu/innovation

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