Systems Thinking School (eBook)

Redesigning Schools from the Inside-Out

Peter A Barnard (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
182 Seiten
R&L Education (Verlag)
978-1-4758-0580-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

ForewordPrefacePrologueThe Systems Thinking SchoolChapter 1Systems MaintenanceChapter2A Systems Thinking ApproachChapter3The Systems Thinking ProcessChapter 4Wicked Problems, Schools, and Systemic ChangeChapter5Wicked 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 ThinkingChapter9The School as an Interconnected Learning ProcessChapter10Mixed-Age MentoringChapter11What Schools Say: Lessons for Managers Chapter12Building the Systems Thinking SchoolChapter13Assessment for LearningChapter14Concluding RemarksBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.9.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Leading Systemic School Improvement
• Zusatzinfo: 14 Illustrations including: - 14 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-0580-2 / 1475805802
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-0580-2 / 9781475805802