Full Description
This book examines the school as an operational organization through the lens of systems thinking. In this way it serves as an invitation to look again at schools and how they operate as learning systems. It begins by showing exactly why our inherited, industrial school model, can never be made to work effectively no matter how hard school leaders try or how well schools are judged.
This book uses systems thinking to explain and describe the management unlearning and new learning needed to create deep and fundamental changes to the way schools operate as complete learning entities. It explains why the reinstatement of the personal tutor in a vertical system is essential to the creation of a learning organization within a complete home/school operational learning process; one capable of building a values driven and more purposeful school culture within a more relevant and coherent society.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Prologue The Systems Thinking School
Chapter 1 Systems Maintenance
Chapter 2 A Systems Thinking Approach
Chapter 3 The Systems Thinking Process
Chapter 4 Wicked Problems, Schools, and Systemic Change
Chapter 5 Wicked Problems and Loopy Solutions
Chapter 6 Applying Single-loop Strategies to Double-loop Problems
Chapter 7 Reform and Variation as Wicked Problems
Chapter 8 Child Development, Customer Care, and Adaptive Systems Thinking
Chapter 9 The School as an Interconnected Learning Process
Chapter 10 Mixed-Age Mentoring
Chapter 11 What Schools Say: Lessons for Managers
Chapter 12 Building the Systems Thinking School
Chapter 13 Assessment for Learning
Chapter 14 Concluding Remarks
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