The Systems Thinking School
Redesigning Schools from the Inside-out
1st Edition
Published on 19. September 2013
182 pages
978-1-4758-0580-2 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Illustrations
14 BW Illustrations
ISBN-13
978-1-4758-0580-2 (9781475805802)
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Person
Peter A Barnard has been involved in education for over 40 years as a successful high school principal, trainer and writer. He is a passionate advocate of vertical tutoring as the managerial means of both understanding and meeting the many challenges that schools face internationally.
Content
Foreword
Preface
PrologueThe Systems Thinking School
Chapter 1Systems Maintenance
Chapter2A Systems Thinking Approach
Chapter3The Systems Thinking Process
Chapter 4Wicked Problems, Schools, and Systemic Change
Chapter5Wicked Problems and Loopy Solutions
Chapter6Applying Single-loop Strategies to Double-loop Problems
Chapter7 Reform and Variation as Wicked Problems
Chapter8Child Development, Customer Care, and Adaptive Systems Thinking
Chapter9The School as an Interconnected Learning Process
Chapter10Mixed-Age Mentoring
Chapter11What Schools Say: Lessons for Managers
Chapter12Building the Systems Thinking School
Chapter13Assessment for Learning
Chapter14Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Preface
PrologueThe Systems Thinking School
Chapter 1Systems Maintenance
Chapter2A Systems Thinking Approach
Chapter3The Systems Thinking Process
Chapter 4Wicked Problems, Schools, and Systemic Change
Chapter5Wicked Problems and Loopy Solutions
Chapter6Applying Single-loop Strategies to Double-loop Problems
Chapter7 Reform and Variation as Wicked Problems
Chapter8Child Development, Customer Care, and Adaptive Systems Thinking
Chapter9The School as an Interconnected Learning Process
Chapter10Mixed-Age Mentoring
Chapter11What Schools Say: Lessons for Managers
Chapter12Building the Systems Thinking School
Chapter13Assessment for Learning
Chapter14Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
