Innovation and collaborative culture in a special education school

Resumen

What are the factors that, on a given time, facilitate the development of an innovation project in a particular school? And, at the same time ... what are the factors that are triggered in the same centre when this innovation project starts? Those are the basic questions which we try to answer using by reference in the description, analysis and reflection a public Special Education centre. A centre with very particular characteristics, because of its specialized nature, which makes it paradigmatic, in a way, regarding the situation of need to answer immediate demands as a result of diversity, which derivatives, in some cases, in institutional innovation processes. The collaborative work becomes, in his turn, in one of the rules that give some stability and continuity to the integration of innovation in the centre, beyond the initial working team.