The irruption of Escola Nova 21 has sparked a heated debate in the Catalan educational world on the idea of educational innovation, its potentialities and limitations. This article presents the positioning in front of this debate by directions of educational centers and agents promoting educational change. The objective is to present a descriptive overview of the current state of the debate based on its protagonists. By means of a qualitative methodology, it is presented, in a descriptive way, how the different actors understand the educational innovation, what is their function, what pedagogical and organizational characteristics has an innovative educational centre and what are the most important determinants that affect the processes of educational change. The main result of this research is the evidence that educational innovation has gone media and politics’ frontline and that the various actors of the educational system position themselves in function of their realities and interest.
Keywords
Educational innovation, educational change, Escola Nova 21, discourse analysis
