Social innovations in education conscious porpoise or nature
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Abstract
This paper addresses current debates around the concept of innovation, social innovation, and their emergence in the context of education through the tension between conscious purpose and nature proposed by Bateson (1998, p. 457). This way, we are able to clarify the sense, meaning, and application of the idea of social innovations in education. This concept is used for social innovations associated with formal education, but also with popular and communitarian education. It explores the link with the field of innovation studies, and with de-colonial, praxeologic, and studies about other pedagogies. This allows us to identify the challenges that researching and teaching on social innovations in education entail.
Keywords:
Social innovation, decolonial thinking, dialogue of knowledge, education research