This report is based on presentations made in a Workshop at Estoril Portugal 21st-25th November 1972 organized by CERI in collaboration with the Portuguese Ministry of National Education, and organized by the OECD. By 1972 Portugal was still a dictatorship.
The report aims to "identify contributions and benefits of the school as a focal point for social change". There are six major contributions:
Influences on Creativity of the School; Strengthening the Creativity of the School; Administrative Relationships between the School and Outsie Institutions; Organisation and Relations Within the School; Professional Support to the School; Interventions for Strengthening the School's Creativity.
In the Introduction, it is stated that despite the different answers to how social change can happen, "all would recognise that, in democratic societies, the school has to respond in a creative way to the pressures of society". Change, even if put as central, it had its boundaries:
"[The school] should not passively adopt all available or proposed innovations - nor should it claim the privilege of acting as an entirely autonomous force for social change. But, how can this balance between the stabilising forces of tradition and the mobilising forces of change, be struck?"
Creativity was related to making certain kinds of persons adaptable to the needs and changes of society.
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Creativity of the School. A report based on presentations made to a Workshop at Estoril Portugal 21st-25th November 1972 organized by CERI in collaboration with the Portuguese Ministry of National Education.
