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2011 Open Classroom Conference – Ellinogermaniki Agogi Decentralisation of the educational system as a vehicle for innovation Stavros Savvas Ellinogermaniki Agogi

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2011 Open Classroom Conference – Ellinogermaniki Agogi

Decentralisation of the educational system as a vehicle

for innovation

Stavros Savvas

Ellinogermaniki Agogi

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21st Century Challenges and Education

The Information and Knowledge Society has emerged as a result oftechnological advancements of the World Wide Web, the Internet andmobile communications over the last two decades. These technologicalDevelopments have had; and still have direct impact to every spect ofour personal and social life, thus changing the way we communicate,collaborate, work and learn. Europe has been a world driving forcewhen it comes to these technological developments, however, in manycases European Member States have falled behind in adopting thenecessary societal re-organisational changes needed in education.

This can be a critical issue for the future of European Union and thefuture of its Member States within the complex global challenges of the21st Century.

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World Declaration on Education for All:Meeting Basic Learning Needs

ARTICLE I - MEETING BASIC LEARNING NEEDS

Every person - child, youth and adult - shall be able to benefit from educational opportunities designed to meet their basic learning needs. These needs comprise both essential learning tools (such as literacy, oral expression, numeracy, and problem solving) and the basic learning content (such as knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes). The scope of basic learning needs and how they should be met varies with individual countries and cultures, and inevitably, changes with the passage of time.

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2. Η παιδεία αποτελεί βασική αποστολή του Κράτους και έχει σκοπό την ηθική, πνευματική επαγγελματική και φυσική αγωγή των Ελλήνων, την ανάπτυξη της εθνικής και θρησκευτικής συνείδησης και τη διάπλασή τους σε ελεύθερους και υπεύθυνους πολίτες.

Greek Constitution

Education constitutes a basic mission for the State and shall aim at the moral, intellectual, professional and physical training of Greeks, the development of national and religious consciousness and at their formation as free and responsible citizens.

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Aviation

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Automobile

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Industry

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Constructions

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Cities

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Schools remain unchangedWhen it comes to the field of education, this lack of social innovationbecomes even more troubling, due to the fact that failing to “re-engineer” ournational and European educational systems, effects significantly all other areas ofsocial and economical development, jurpotising Europe’s position in the globalknowledge-based society.

Especially, Schools appear to remain almost unchanged for the most part despitenumerous efforts and investments in technology, teachers’ training andinfrastructure. Yet, the way we organise schooling and provide education remainsbasically the same.

To put it in another way: “we still educate our students based on anagricultural timetable, in an industrial setting, yet telling students and teachersthey live in a digital age”.

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During the past years, several reasons have been identifiedseparately as possible distractions in aligning schoolsoperations and results to the ones anticipated by the 21st

Century Societies.

The most highlighted ones being: Lack of funds, not enough computers in the classroom, littleinterest from students and parents, out of date teachingpractices, poorly trained teachers, and even afundamentally flawed way to measure performance atschools.

Many national and European initiatives have beenundertaken to tackle these issues separately. Yet, theimprovement has been marginal, if any at all.

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““I am not a teacher of “things”, I am anI am not a teacher of “things”, I am an“orchestrator” of ideas.“orchestrator” of ideas. My educationalMy educational

institution is not a physical plant withinstitution is not a physical plant withclassrooms and trees, but aclassrooms and trees, but a “hub” of“hub” of

resources no longer constrained by time resources no longer constrained by time anand d place. My students are noplace. My students are no longer longer

“my”“my” students, but we are all students students, but we are all students togethertogether”.”.

Dillon and Granger (1998)Dillon and Granger (1998)

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Different Cultures, Different settings, Different Needs

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But we are educating our children by developing the same curricula

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…the same books

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…while we are following the same timetables

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Educational Systems have to focus on the real educational needs.

Current approaches, although are promising “education for all”, seem to ignore the real situation in the

local settings.

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Main challenge for an effective educational system

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World Declaration on Education for All:Meeting Basic Learning Needs

ARTICLE I - MEETING BASIC LEARNING NEEDS

Every person - child, youth and adult - shall be able to benefit from educational opportunities designed to meet their basic learning needs. These needs comprise both essential learning tools (such as literacy, oral expression, numeracy, and problem solving) and the basic learning content (such as knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes). The scope of basic learning needs and how they should be met varies with individual countries and cultures, and inevitably, changes with the passage of time.

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2. Η παιδεία αποτελεί βασική αποστολή του Κράτους και έχει σκοπό την ηθική, πνευματική επαγγελματική και φυσική αγωγή των Ελλήνων, την ανάπτυξη της εθνικής και θρησκευτικής συνείδησης και τη διάπλασή τους σε ελεύθερους και υπεύθυνους πολίτες.

Greek Constitution

Education constitutes a basic mission for the State and shall aim at the moral, intellectual, professional and physical training of Greeks, the development of national and religious consciousness and at their formation as free and responsible citizens.

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Responsibility of the

State to ensure

Education for AllTotal control of the

education process from state authorities

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Characteristics of the (Western) Educational Systems

TOP DOWN APPROACH

CENTRALLY GUIDED

BINDING FOR THE TEACHER

RESTRICTIVE

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Health

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Medicine

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Food

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Effective Educational Systems

The success of the effective educational systems (e.g. Finland) can be attributed to shift from controlling the resources and content of education towards a focus on better outcomes, while establishing universal high standards. 

These systems have also abandoned uniformity in favour of embracing diversity and individualised learning and moved from a bureaucratic approach towards delegating responsibilities; from talking about equity to delivering equity.

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• For a system’s improvement journey• to be sustained over the long term, the• improvements have to be integrated into• the very fabric of the system pedagogy.• We have identified three ways that• improving systems do this: by establishing• collaborative practices, by developing• a mediating layer between the schools• and the center, and by architecting• tomorrow’s leadership. Each of these• aspects of sustaining improvement is an• interconnected and integral part of the• system pedagogy.

• How the world’s most improved school systems keep getting better • November 2010 Mc Kinsey

The Reform Journey

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August, 2011

downsize the central structures currently devoted toinput-, pre audit-oriented controls.

Complement the centrally-led approach toProfessional development with a more local, decentralised approach based on school needs. Theseneeds should be evaluated and examined at school level.

Accelerate the initiative on school selfevaluation with a view to designing andimplementing a comprehensive system ofassessment and evaluation based on resultsand outcomes

OECD POLICY ADVICE FOR GREECE

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Bureaucratic School Systems

CULTURAL / CULTURAL / RELIGIOUSRELIGIOUS

GROUPSGROUPS

CULTURAL / CULTURAL / RELIGIOUSRELIGIOUS

GROUPSGROUPS

ENTERPRISESENTERPRISESENTERPRISESENTERPRISES

MEDIA / ITMEDIA / ITMEDIA / ITMEDIA / IT

EMPLOYERS EMPLOYERS ORGANISATIONSORGANISATIONS

,,UNIONSUNIONS

EMPLOYERS EMPLOYERS ORGANISATIONSORGANISATIONS

,,UNIONSUNIONS

PARENTSPARENTSPARENTSPARENTS

TERTIARY TERTIARY EDUCATIONEDUCATION

TERTIARY TERTIARY EDUCATIONEDUCATION

LEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNER

LEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNER

LEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNER

LEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNER

SCHOOLSCHOOLSCHOOLSCHOOL

TEACHERTEACHERTEACHERTEACHER

TEACHERTEACHERTEACHERTEACHER

TTEEAACCHHEERR

TTEEAACCHHEERR

FFOORRCCEE

GOVERNMENT

FUNDINGBODY

FUNDINGBODY QA

ASSESSMENT

QAASSESSMENT

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Schools as Focused Learning Organisations

CULTURAL /CULTURAL /RELIGIOUSRELIGIOUS

GROUPSGROUPS

CULTURAL /CULTURAL /RELIGIOUSRELIGIOUS

GROUPSGROUPS

ENTERPRISESENTERPRISESENTERPRISESENTERPRISES

MEDIA / ITMEDIA / ITMEDIA / ITMEDIA / ITTEACHERTEACHER

PROFESSION,PROFESSION,TRAININGTRAINING

TEACHERTEACHERPROFESSION,PROFESSION,

TRAININGTRAINING

EMPLOYERS EMPLOYERS ORGANISATIONS,ORGANISATIONS,

UNIONSUNIONS

EMPLOYERS EMPLOYERS ORGANISATIONS,ORGANISATIONS,

UNIONSUNIONS

SCHOOLSCHOOLSCHOOLSCHOOL

TERTIARYTERTIARYEDUCATIONEDUCATION

TERTIARYTERTIARYEDUCATIONEDUCATION

SCHOOLSCHOOLSCHOOLSCHOOL

GOVERNMENTGOVERNMENTFUNDINGFUNDING

BODYBODY

FUNDINGFUNDINGBODYBODYLEARNINGLEARNING

MATERIALSMATERIALS

LEARNINGLEARNINGMATERIALSMATERIALS QAQA

ASSESSMENTASSESSMENT

QAQAASSESSMENTASSESSMENT

INTERNATIONALINTERNATIONALAGENCIESAGENCIES

SCHOOLSCHOOLSCHOOLSCHOOL

PARENTSPARENTSPARENTSPARENTS

LEARNERLEARNERLEARNERLEARNER

TEACHERTEACHERTEACHERTEACHER

LEARNINGLEARNINGCONSULTANTCONSULTANT

LEARNINGLEARNINGCONSULTANTCONSULTANT

LEARNINGLEARNINGCOMPANIESCOMPANIES

LEARNINGLEARNINGCOMPANIESCOMPANIES

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What is really needed:Flexibility and Diversity

School-based curriculum development, steering by information and support

The State only defines the framework.

More freedom of choice to the teacherFlexibility to the teacher to form his/her lesson

and apply innovative methods and tools

Trust through professionalismA culture of trust on teachers’ and headmasters’ professionalism in judging

what is best for students and in reporting of progress

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Crisis: An opportunity for change

It is not a matter of money!

It is a matter of creativity!