LEARNING SOCIETY & 

CREATIVITY

Group 1:Maider Madariaga, Lore

Irurzun, Jaume Gelabert and Beatriz
Umbon

Secretary: All of us
Speaker: Bea
 
 TOWARDS THE LEARNING SOCIETY

A new model of production of knowledge and know-how is emerging, combining extreme

specialization and cross-disciplinary creativeness.
Knowledge build-up, not only school, but individuals drawing on collective memory
The importance of adequate scientific and artistic awareness to ensure that democracy can
function properly (critical thought and respect for others)
To build the learning society priority to quality in education and training

 Information Society               vs             Learning Society

Info and knowledge available to Individuals need to adapt,

everyone assemble building-blocks of
knowledge  assemble building-
blocks acquired at different times

Building-up knowledge, scaffolding, objectives CLIL

 WHITE PAPER
 
• ENCOURAGE THE ACQUISITION OF NEW KNOWLEDGE 
New Communications and Technology
 
• PROFICIENCY IN THREE COMMUNITY LANGUAGES
Pre-condition of citizens of the EC at personal and
occupational level.  Everyone should be proficient in 2
Community foreign languages
 
• BRING THE BUSINESS AND THE SCHOOLS CLOSER
TOGETHER 
Education must be opened up to the world of work. 
Cooperation must be developed between schools and firms
 
 
 
 Multilingualism & Creativity
• Broader acces to info
• It is highly likely that the multilingual mind differs
in some respects to the monolingual mind
• M. increases the potential for creative thought.
• Multilingualism= scaffolding features, eg: better
in other languages; better analyse ability; higher
creativity...
• Video by David Marsh