Abstract
The paper problematizes current European educational reforms that, under the agenda of European qualification framework, aim at establishing occupational and qualification standards. While providing a mechanism for measurement, evaluation, and comparison of qualifications and learning outcomes between the state members, enabling permeability in education for EU citizens in and across the member states, it is also creating an overly rigid, slow, traditional, and bureaucratically burdened system of education that cannot address the market and societal needs for extremely fast transformations and adaptations required by 4th industrial revolution (4IR). On one side, 4IR requires innovative and creative approaches from education stakeholders, dedicated to providing highly transversal skills with emphasis on critical, entrepreneurial, and creative thinking for majority of occupations that do not exist at present time and even cannot be anticipated, regarding necessity for a few changes in technological ecosystem and even of professions in an individual’s course of life. On the contrary, the current educational reforms with top-down approach aim at standardization of present occupations and formalization of qualification framework that overly predefines educational goals, thus diminishing creative and entrepreneurial potential of educational stakeholders and prolonging adaptation to 4IR. There is a justified concern that the key words in European educational strategies such as creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, autonomy, and responsibility of stakeholders have only nominal meaning with little potential for real impact. The aim is to raise awareness and encourage discussion about these discrepancies, corroborating it with examples and experiences from our adult learning institution.
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Barbara Stamenković Tadić, Callegari Italian School of Fashion and Design, Croatia
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Conference: ECE2024
Stream: Professional Training
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To cite this article:
Tadić B. (2024) Entrepreneurship and Creativity in Education: Why Current European Educational Reforms Are Aiming in the Opposite Direction? ISSN: 2188-1162 The European Conference on Education 2024: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 797-804) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-1162.2024.61
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-1162.2024.61
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