schools as complex systems. creating learning organizations
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The World We Live In
A Knowledge Based Society is the type of Society “that is needed to compete and succeed in the changing economic and political dynamics of the modern world”1.
“In a changing world, we want the EU to become a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy.”2
1. http://www.oas.org/en/topics/knowledge_society.asp2. http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/index_en.htm
“Policies need to prepare for a shifting world”3.
3. http://www.oas.org/en/topics/knowledge_society.asp
The Globalisation Paradox
Integrated Vs Multipolar
Science and Complexity
Warren Weaver (1948)
Simplicity
Organized Complexity Disorganized Complexity
Pro
blem
s
Departments
ProcessesPupils
Families
Regional Authorities
Teachers’ social context
Schools as Complex Systems
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TEAM
Complex Open System composed by individuals who5:
1.Are interdependent in their tasks
2.Share responsibility for their outcomes
3.See themselves and are seen by others as a social entity 5. Cohen & Bailey (1997)
Systemic and Integrative Model for Team Learning6
6. Decuyper at al. (2010)
Facilitatin
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Learnin
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Facilitatin
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Learnin
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Learning Organization
Is organized, both Culturally and Structurally, to continuously produce Innovation, Flexibility and Improvement .7
Social Interaction
Shared Understandings
7. Huysman (2000)
Moving forward a Learning Organization
Adaptive LearningAdaptive Learning
Generative Learning
Generative Learning
Organization at Schools
Culturally Structurally
• Teams of Teachers
• Managing Ambidexterity (Information System)
• Accountability (Balance Scorecard)
• Implementation of Ba• Formative Assessment
• Fostering Inquiry
• Providing for members’ Self Fullfilment
Carlos Trullén Calvo
aTaW EducationOrganizational Management Consultancy
[email protected]@carlos_trullen