An analysis of curricular innovation in higher education: challenges and a possible solution
An analysis of curricular innovation in higher education: challenges and a possible solution

Summary/Abstract: Curricular innovation in university education allows teachers to make use of a wide range of changes. What do teachers mean by “curricular innovation”, how do they apply it and what are the factors that mobilize or block them in this process? These issues were analyzed based on the answers given by university teachers. Hence, we found that, although, at a theoretical level, teachers clearly formulate the needs of curricular development, at a practical/applied level, the action of curricular innovation is associated with uncertain objectives. A balance regarding variety/freedom of changein education would stimulate a more efficient innovation process (because excessive variety causesuncertainty and hinders action). Following the analysis of the teachers' answers, we found that theywould be helped by the promotion of (only) successful innovative models, in which the possibleapplication variants (and the results obtained depending on the local specifics, domain specifics,etc.) are specified. We believe that in this way, teachers will take be more active with respect tocurricular innovation.

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