Education needs a rethink if schools are to encourage creative problem solving

Danielle Kutchel

By Danielle Kutchel
Published February 11, 2019

Education is full of buzzwords - STEM(or STEAM), ILEs, coding, innovation, but delve a little deeper, and innovation is more than just a bandwagon – it’s a platform for the future. LeadershipEd spoke to Tony Wagner, Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute, to find out more.

As schools around the country resort to various measures to appear ‘innovative’, it’s worthwhile to remember what innovation actually means ...

This story appeared in the Term 4 2018 edition of LeadershipEd.

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