Schooling Redesigned
Towards Innovative Learning Systems
What does redesigning schools and schooling through innovation mean in practice? How
might it be brought about? These questions have inspired an influential international
reflection on “Innovative Learning Environments” (ILE) led by the OECD. This reflection
has already resulted in publications on core design principles and frameworks and
on learning leadership. Now the focus extends from exceptional examples towards wider
initiatives and system transformation. The report draws as core material on analyses
of initiatives specially submitted by some 25 countries, regions and networks. It
describes common strengths around a series of Cs: Culture change, Clarifying focus,
Capacity creation, Collaboration & Co-operation, Communication technologies & platforms,
and Change agents. It suggests that growing innovative learning at scale needs approaches
rooted in the complexity of 21st century society and “learning eco-systems”. It argues
that a flourishing middle level of change around networks and learning communities
provides the platform on which broader transformation can be built.
This report is not a compendium of “best practices” but a succinct analysis presenting
original concepts and approaches, illustrated by concrete cases from around the world.
It will be especially useful for those designing, researching or engaging in educational
change, whether in schools, policy, communities or wider networks.
“The OECD’s ILE work has mobilised and generated profoundly important knowledge about
the nature of learning and opened understandings of learning environments within and
beyond school. The ILE Framework has already proved to be an invaluable tool for the
emerging future of learning leadership and systems development.”
Professor Michael Schratz, Dean, School of Education, University of Innsbruck, Austria;
President of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI)
“Innovation and creativity are the lifeblood of learning. Schooling Redesigned summarises
beautifully one of the OECD's most fascinating projects - an attempt to look at the
DNA of innovation in schools. Using a global range of actual examples it describes
the conditions that education systems have to create if children and their parents,
teachers and communities are to feel confident and optimistic about the future. For
teachers, the messages are inspiring. Education systems have to focus on enhancing
teachers' capacity and motivation. Standardisation cannot do that. Its messages to
the profession and its organisations are profound. Teacher unions are, can and should
be at the centre of creating the conditions for innovation.”
John Bangs, Special consultant at Education International; Chair of TUAC’s international
group on Education, Training and Employment Policy
Published on October 22, 2015Also available in: Chinese
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