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Development of An Innovation, Friendly Education System

The aim of this report is to examine innovation-friendliness in the education system. By this, we mean an education system that recognises problems and unsatisfied needs and searches workable solutions to them. An innovation-friendly system enables the development of these solutions and ensures their high-quality implementation.

Innovation can be defined in many ways, but in the context of this report, innovation refers to an improvement of the current situation – a solution that is, or may be, useful in many different contexts. The report looks at innovation
as a cohesive concept, outlining the preconditions for its functionality using the develop-implement-finance model. However, it should be noted that an innovation’s operating model influences the way these issues are connected and has an impact on the organisation which uses the innovation. In most cases, innovative tools are easier to integrate than innovations related to the content of the work. For example, innovations influencing the professional identity of education and training staff require renewal that starts inside each employee, whereas the introduction of
a single tool or operating model can be done quickly.

The report’s theoretical section addresses the various topics related to innovation friendliness. We use Rogers’ theory on the diffusion of innovation, outlining how innovations are introduced in schools and how the process of introduction can be described through Hellström’s concept of the way of change, and through Fullan’s theory of change management. Innovations and their relationship with the education system are then examined through the findings and research of the world’s organisations which study education and innovation.

Sumber: HundrEd