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What Do We Mean by Educational Innovation?

June 30, 2021

Via: Inside Higher Ed

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Education Tech

Some pet phrases actually mean the exact opposite of what their words supposedly say. Take “urban renewal.” Those old enough to remember the 1960s know that this phrase was a synonym for slum clearance, or, in James Baldwin’s telling phrase, “Negro removal.”

The term “education innovation” is similar. Not simply an empty signifier, with a vague, uncertain meaning, the phrase usually refers to ways to make education faster and cheaper, more flexible, efficient and cost-effective.

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