Educating for Innovation-Driven Societies

Paris, 26 April 2012Educating for innovation-driven societies Dirk Van Damme Head of Division OECD Directorate for Education

Skills and education for innovation « 21st Century Skills » Education and training Skills Innovation

Skills for innovation • Is innovation hampered by a lack of qualified personnel? Education and • What skills/qualifications training foster innovation in the economy?Skills • Has innovation led to a change in the level and type of education demanded? Innovation • Are certain uses of workforce skills associated with more innovation?

Individual skills for innovation • Education systems have to produce skills for three modes of innovation: – Elite model (R&D, breakthrough) Education – Democratic model and (organisational learning, training incremental) – User-driven model Skills • What skills shall everyone have in an innovation-driven society? Innovation – Adapt to creative destruction (LLL) – Readiness for tertiary education – Participate in innovation process as user and producer

What individual skills should education systems foster? Technical skills (know-what and know- how)Behavioural and Skills in thinking social skills and creativity (Self-confidence, energy, (Critical thinking, ability perseverance, passion, to make connections,leadership, collaboration, imagination, curiosity,...) communication)

Education for innovation • Curriculum – How broad or narrow? – Should some specific fields be privileged? Education and • Pedagogy training – Are some pedagogies more effective in fostering simultaneously all the sets of skills?Skills • Assessment Innovation – 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?

Educating for innovative societies • Conversation with Howard Gardner • STEM education – How to teach them to develop simultaneously all the sets of skills Education in mathematics and in science? and training • Arts education – What do we know about the impact of arts education on skill Skills development? – What role does it play in innovation more generally? Innovation • Developing new tools for assessing 21st century skills – Creativity – Collaborative problem-solving (PISA 2012 and 2015) – Other sets of skill

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