The concepts of innovation and tradition are often considered in terms of dichotomy, as two contradictory terms. In his study on the notion of innovation, Benoit Godin (2008) argues that the term only recently has it gained positive connotation, but basically it had been seen as the opposite term of tradition. Regarding tradition, Graburn writes that although it is seen as the opposite of modernity, it is, in fact, the latter’s strength. We hypothesize that although the two terms are seen as opposing ones if considered in terms of systems such as education, only a proper balance between innovation and tradition will assure the efficiency of the system. Our aim in the paper is to illustrate the interaction of the two terms in the education system by illustrating the need for balance between the two with examples from the Romanian education system, focusing on teacher training.
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