By Peter A. Barnard

This ebook examines the college as an operational association during the lens of platforms considering. during this method it serves as a call for participation to seem back at colleges and the way they function as studying structures. It starts off via displaying precisely why our inherited, business college version, can by no means be made to paintings successfully irrespective of how challenging college leaders test or how good faculties are judged.

This publication makes use of platforms pondering to give an explanation for and describe the administration unlearning and new studying had to create deep and primary adjustments to the best way colleges function as whole studying entities. It explains why the reinstatement of the private train in a vertical procedure is key to the production of a studying association inside a whole home/school operational studying approach; one able to construction a values pushed and extra practical university tradition inside of a extra appropriate and coherent society.

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The systems thinking school is the necessary preparatory stage to systemic change. Those engaged in systems thinking want better school outcomes more relevant to the world in which we live and compatible with the twentyfirst–century challenges we face. That is fine and unarguable. Systems thinkers also subscribe to the idea that systems should be designed to coevolve with the environment they serve, what is called ecological systemic change. Duffy (2008) sets out the challenge this way: From this point of view, systemic change is based upon a clear understanding of interrelationships and interdependencies within the system of interest and between the system of interest and its external systemic environment.

Because of this, it is necessary to look again at our schools. A Systems Thinking Approach 9 Quite simply, we need to avoid separating the people who work in our schools from their modus operandi, the way they work in operating a learning process. We must stand back and suspend such common assumptions and forego any application of bygone industrial remedies. In particular, we must set teachers aside as being in any way a problem of quality, and look at the school as a complete operational learning process that includes parents, the community, and the knowledge society beyond.

How can it be that busy and bustling schools alive with humanity can produce such resentful loners? Goodlad is right to call attention to the importance of the quality of learning relationships. Inadequate learning relationships are not just a symptom of system breakdown but part of the root cause. They were never designed into the industrial model; they were not seen as necessary, but they are necessary now and especially so in complex societies! There are many clues from the past, but most have been seen as warranting only superficial interventions and policy changes.

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