ABSTRACT
The main areas of educational innovation in the world's societies today are in terms of school systems and forms of organisations, developments in further and higher education, methods of teaching and learning, curriculum development and research. It would be very convenient to separate these elements out so that one could deal with each development
in isolation, but any discussion of system organisation leads to a consideration of method; method is inseparable from curriculum content,
and both are the subject of research. It is, however, desirable to attempt to deal with educational innovations in some sort of sequence, and we have, therefore, brought our main considerations under the four headings of organisation, curriculum, method and research. The following account is necessarily both selective and partial, since nothing short of a book on the subject could possibly deal with it in all its aspects. The main aim of the chapter is to indicate the sort of changes that are taking place and the extent to which they are local or general.
