Chapter 8

Case Studies in England

This chapter examines a variety of cases of new pedagogic and technological approaches. In England, the adopted cases comprise: Teaching Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon; The Extended Project at Rugby School; Team Engineering at the Open University; Work-based Learning at the Institute of Education, University of London; and Think, Play and Do at Imperial College London.

Keywords

Education in United Kingdom; Entrepreneurship; Independent Learning; Innovation in Brazil; Work-based Learning

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

(Winston Churchill, 1874–1965)1

Josiah Wedgwood is considered by many to be the archetypal innovator (Dodgson and Gann, 2010 ...

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