Socially Collaborative Schools
The Heretic's Guide to Mixed-Age Tutor Groups, System Design, and the Goal of Goodness
Socially Collaborative Schools
The Heretic's Guide to Mixed-Age Tutor Groups, System Design, and the Goal of Goodness
Description
The inherited model of schooling based on same-age tutor groups is not only wrong but anti-learning and unsafe. When examined from a systems perspective, the assumptions are revealed. This explains why schools fail to respond to reform and why reform is the wrong approach. It blames the same-age structure as the direct cause of bullying, poor parent partnership, mental health issues and more, pointing out the system’s separation from psychology and child welfare. When schools adopt a mixed-age system (tutor groups / home-groups mixed by age) these adverse effects are resolved. The book calls for wholesale change to the way schools organize relationships and issues of connectivity. The author uses insights and research from his work with hundreds of schools worldwide transitioning from the same-age system to one based on mixed-age. This book rejects the use of pro-social programs (add-ons and fixes) in favor of one able to design in empathy, emotional intelligence, and character.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section One: The School as a Living System
Systems, Purposes, and Problems –A First LookReacting to DisturbancesFrom Collaborative Professionalism to Social CollaborationThe Pusher, the Puller and Thinking DifferentlyThe School as a Living System: Disturbance and Fast FixesMore Disturbance –BullyingMental Health and SystemsThe School as a Viable SystemWicked problems and Parent PartnershipDistributed Leadership, Psychology and Collective Teacher EfficacySection Two: The Long and Winding Road to the Socially Collaborative School
A First Management TrawlFrom New Public Management (NPM) to Public Value Management (PVM)The Problem of DeliverologyTalent Management and a First Look at TeamsGoogle and Emerging ThinkingSchool CultureLearning from the Public SectorLearning Organizations and the Color TealThe Buurtzorg SchoolMoving from Complicated to Complex: the Strange Case of the Effect ListConcluding Remarks: Two Management Models and Systems ThinkingChapter Summaries
Appendices
Bibliography
About the Author
Product details
| Published | 22 Sep 2018 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 300 |
| ISBN | 9798216273394 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Illustrations | 5 BW Illustrations, 1 BW Photos, 12 Tables |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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