Education for innovation and independent learning / [electronic resource] Ronaldo Mota, David Scott. Educando para inova�c�ao e aprendizagem independente. English Mota, Ronaldo, author. Scott, David, translator. Educational technology. Education Brazil. Education Great Britain. LA556 .M68 2014eb 370.981 23 Includes bibliographical references and index. Our principal concern in this book is to understand three important ideas: learning, technology and innovation, and to examine these ideas and the relationships between them in situ; that is, we examine a number of cases of learning technologies in action in two countries, England and Brazil. The purpose of our study is to provide an explanation of the means to, and constraints on, improvements to educational policies and practices, with particular reference to innovation. We have a plethora of theoretical models that in attempting to deal with causal relations usually come to the conclusion that there are socio-economic-cultural constraints, but these observations largely remain at an abstract level and/or come to very general conclusions that are not of particular help to practitioners in the field. These issues can only be properly addressed after examining the empirical reality and having a spectrum of cases to analyze. By combining the theoretical and the practical, our aim is to explain how and under what conditions new modes of learning can be put into practice successfully and sustainably, in order for the learner to develop innovatory skills and dispositions for work and in the life course. 2014 Text 1 online resource : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128008478 eng eng por Brazil. fast (OCoLC)fst01206830 Great Britain. fast (OCoLC)fst01204623 Brazil. Great Britain.