Socially Collaborative Schools
The Heretic's Guide to Mixed-Age Tutor Groups, System Design, and the Goal of Goodness
Published on 22. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-4758-4432-0 (ISBN)
Description
The inherited model of schooling based on same-age tutor groups is not only wrong but anti-learning and unsafe. When examined from a systems perspective, the assumptions are revealed. This explains why schools fail to respond to reform and why reform is the wrong approach. It blames the same-age structure as the direct cause of bullying, poor parent partnership, mental health issues and more, pointing out the system's separation from psychology and child welfare. When schools adopt a mixed-age system (tutor groups / home-groups mixed by age) these adverse effects are resolved. The book calls for wholesale change to the way schools organize relationships and issues of connectivity. The author uses insights and research from his work with hundreds of schools worldwide transitioning from the same-age system to one based on mixed-age. This book rejects the use of pro-social programs (add-ons and fixes) in favor of one able to design in empathy, emotional intelligence, and character.
Reviews / Votes
Socially Collaborative Schools will be a breath of fresh air for those looking to truly transform their school ethos and embrace the idea of community. Having made the switch to a vertical tutoring system, we can safely say Barnard is correct; we will never go back. Students and staff alike feel liberated by the changes and only now is it possible to see how restrictive the same-age system is. -- Claire Copeland and Gemma Pearse, Trafalgar School, Portsmouth Socially Collaborative Schools is a fascinating account of the author's passion and vast experience of this 'second system'. -- Karen Wespieser, director, Centre for Education EconomicsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
5 BW Illustrations, 1 BW Photos, 12 Tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
441 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4758-4432-0 (9781475844320)
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Peter A. Barnard
Socially Collaborative Schools
The Heretic's Guide to Mixed-Age Tutor Groups, System Design, and the Goal of Goodness
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09/2018
1st Edition
Bloomsbury eBooks US
€36.99
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Person
Peter A Barnard is a retired school principal, and now runs his own international school consultancy. He has written five books on system change and is the acknowledged expert on mixed-age organization (vertical tutoring) and schools as systems.
Content
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section One: The School as a Living System
Systems, Purposes, and Problems -A First LookReacting to DisturbancesFrom Collaborative Professionalism to Social CollaborationThe Pusher, the Puller and Thinking DifferentlyThe School as a Living System: Disturbance and Fast FixesMore Disturbance -BullyingMental Health and SystemsThe School as a Viable SystemWicked problems and Parent PartnershipDistributed Leadership, Psychology and Collective Teacher EfficacySection Two: The Long and Winding Road to the Socially Collaborative School
A First Management TrawlFrom New Public Management (NPM) to Public Value Management (PVM)The Problem of DeliverologyTalent Management and a First Look at TeamsGoogle and Emerging ThinkingSchool CultureLearning from the Public SectorLearning Organizations and the Color TealThe Buurtzorg SchoolMoving from Complicated to Complex: the Strange Case of the Effect ListConcluding Remarks: Two Management Models and Systems ThinkingChapter Summaries
Appendices
Bibliography
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section One: The School as a Living System
Systems, Purposes, and Problems -A First LookReacting to DisturbancesFrom Collaborative Professionalism to Social CollaborationThe Pusher, the Puller and Thinking DifferentlyThe School as a Living System: Disturbance and Fast FixesMore Disturbance -BullyingMental Health and SystemsThe School as a Viable SystemWicked problems and Parent PartnershipDistributed Leadership, Psychology and Collective Teacher EfficacySection Two: The Long and Winding Road to the Socially Collaborative School
A First Management TrawlFrom New Public Management (NPM) to Public Value Management (PVM)The Problem of DeliverologyTalent Management and a First Look at TeamsGoogle and Emerging ThinkingSchool CultureLearning from the Public SectorLearning Organizations and the Color TealThe Buurtzorg SchoolMoving from Complicated to Complex: the Strange Case of the Effect ListConcluding Remarks: Two Management Models and Systems ThinkingChapter Summaries
Appendices
Bibliography
About the Author