Learning to Innovate: Learning regions [electronic resource] / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Chapter 1. The Search for Innovative Learning Environments by Francisco Benavides, Hanna Dumont and David Istance (OECD Secretariat)

Chapter 2. Optimising Learning: Implications of Learning Sciences Research by R. Keith Sawyer

Chapter 3. Toward Research-based Innovation by Carl Bereiter and Marlene Scardamalia

Chapter 4. The Contribution of Alternative Education by Anne Sliwka

Chapter 5. Situated Pedagogies, Curricular Justice and Democratic Teaching by Mar Rodríguez-Romero

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

Chapter 7. What Makes Innovations Work on the Ground? by María Cecilia Fierro-Evans

Chapter 8. The Dynamics of Innovation: Why Does it Survive and What Makes it Function by Inés Aguerrondo

Chapter 9. Open Learning: A Systems-driven Model of Innovation for Education by Tom Bentley

Annex A. Summaries of the Four Mexican Case Studies

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-280-03080-1

9786610030804

92-64-03384-X

OCLC:

1027166108