From school delusion to design : mixed-age groups and values-led transformation / Peter A. Barnard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnard, Peter A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tutors and tutoring.

Group work in education.

Ability grouping in education.

Student-centered learning.

School improvement programs.

Physical Description:

xvi, 203 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

Summary:

From School Delusion to Design: Mixed-Age Groups and Values-Led Transformation explains why school managers and administrators are prone to biased judgments often devoid of research and assuming of child psychology. It explains why schools universally are heading in the wrong direction. This book invites us to reconsider purpose, method, and measures and their link with the systems thinking concepts of value demand and failure demand. It identifies flaws in organizational thinking and especially the universal penchant for same-age groups universally seen as the basis for school organization. It posits an alternative design for putting schools back in touch with all that we need them to be and thereby removing the delusion that obscures their way. The alternative model is vertical tutoring or mixed-age groups, and this counterintuitive change is the first domino in a transformational process that recultures the school. It does this by rebuilding and reconnecting the relationships between parents, students, and staff on which learning depends. It not only personalizes the way the school operates but ensures it is values-led and that everyone is involved in the learning process. This book simply cuts through the dross of the great education debate and offers a better way forward. Book jacket.

Contents:

The way we think we think isn't the way we think we think

The five disciplines

Complexity and demand in systems thinking

A letter, some thoughts, and some math

The real problem is the way we see the problem

Problems, purpose, energy, and complexity

The systems thinking process to seeing

Background to the checking process

Counter-intuitive truths and the nature of leverage points

Learning in loops

Unlearning and training a school

Psychology and design for learning

Psychology as the arbiter of design

Drawing up a design spec

Learning from finland and other jurisdictions

Learning about customers

Managing the change process: the implementation of vertical tutoring

The journey from delusion to design.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781475815344

1475815344

9781475815351

1475815352

OCLC:

898161605