The location of innovation education in Icelandic compulsory schools

Innovation and entrepreneurial education (IEE) is a curricular area where learners apply creativity and knowledge to meet needs or solve problems they identify.It involves inventing objects and processes to improve social life and aims to develop critical and creative thinking in design, technology, marketing and enterprise.The formal aim of this study is to examine examples of IEE in compulsory schools in Iceland and locate them within the pedagogic discourse, extracting an understanding of the nature of IEE and the conditions it thrives in.The research focused on the work of teachers to identify what supports them and their schools in offering and developing IEE.Some legal, curricular and political frameworks and tendencies and social structures were identified and analyzed for the influences they have on relocating the innovation discourse into schools as the curriculum area 'innovation education'.