transition public school districts need to make away from the "iron
cage" of the bureaucratic model (as Max Weber saw it) into Peter Senge's
idea of Learning Organizations (always growing and changing in form as
its member roles change) ....but has been difficult to imagine what
Learning Organizations look like or have in common concretely.
Until now.
I appreciated Fred sharing "The Power of Pull" and have ordered it.
John Seeley Brown is one of my favorite education theorists. From the
look of it, Brown's book will address this.
So does Alan Bain's description of "emergence" in The Self-Organizing
School
<http://www.amazon.com/Self-Organizing-School-Next-Generation-Comprehensive-Reforms/dp/1578866022>,
which showed up in my Google Alert for "Open Source Education".
I've written a blog post skimming on these ideas (adding Gregory Bateson
and Christopher Alexander). Still theoretical but I think this is a good
thread to deepen into.
I don't know how many independent schools follow the bureaucratic model,
but I wanted to share this post on ISED-L and see who might wish to
comment further there or here:
http://empowered-teacher.com/blog/10-05-22/transition-bureaucracy-learning-organizations
-Bram
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