Insights and outlooks
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INSIGHTS AND OUTLOOKS
Dirk Van Damme
• How do they enable the world to better address the problems of our times, finding itself at a crossroads of paradigm shifts
• What have schools and educationalists to tell to the world– Not the passive recipient of social change,
but also in itself the driver of change– Is education also a system of values
Why innovation, new pedagogy?
• Inclusive• Interdependency• Networked, connected• Research-driven, knowledge-intensive• Pedagogical optimism
What are the characteristics of an ecosystem of innovation?
• Complexity leading to immobility?• Risk-taking and failure
– Do we learn enough from mistakes?
• Innovation as the new doxa• Stability or chaos• Professionalism and disempowerment
Trade-offs to innovation
• What’s the right label for the opposite force?– “Conservative”– “Traditionalist”– “Elitist”– “Obscurantist”– “Authoritarian”
• Or is it– “laisser-faire”, “defaitism”– routine
The restoration agenda
• Pedagogical ‘architecture’– Architects might be a better role model
than medical doctors– From curing to enabling
• The power of design– Challenging pedagogical gravity– Integrating technology– Imaginative but doable– Beauty
From the utopian to the practical mind