learning organisations and schools

Sydney Boydell (sydboy@insane.apana.org.au)
Thu, 26 Jan 1995 18:14:21 +1100

Can a school be a learning organisation? I am not being facetious! Is
anyone out there working on this?

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Host's Note: I asked Syd to expand a bit on his question. Here is what he
sent me...
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I am interested in K-12 schools as institutiions rather than the
'mini-institution' of a classroom. My experience has been that schools
are complex institutions that on the whole don't recognise their own
complexity. Hence individual classrooms operate as if they are
autonomous.

In fact they are part of a system. However, speaking systems language to
many people in schools results in blank stares and incredulity. Are there
schools out there who have deliberately moved towards building shared
vision, team learning, personal mastery, etc.?

From: sydboy@insane.apana.org.au (Sydney Boydell)