Schools That Learn (Updated and Revised): A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education
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“A rich, much-needed remedy for the standardized institutions that comprise too much of our school system today… ideal for teachers and parents intent on resurrecting and fostering students’ inherent drive to learn…An essential resource.”
-Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVE and A WHOLE NEW MIND
“Schools that Learn is a magnificent, grand book that pays equal attention to the small and the big picture – and what’s more integrates them. There is no book on education change that comes close to Senge et al’s sweeping and detailed treatment. Classroom, school, community, systems, citizenry—it’s all there. The core message is stirring: what if we viewed schools as a means of shifting society for the better!”
-Michael Fullan, author of Change Leader and Learning Places
A new edition of the groundbreaking book that brings organizational learning and systems thinking into classrooms and schools, showing how to keep our nation’s educational system competitive in today’s world.
Revised and updated – with more than 100 pages of new material – for the first time since its initial publication in 2000 comes a new edition of the seminal work acclaimed as one of the best books ever written about education and schools.
A unique collaboration between the celebrated management thinker and Fifth Discipline author Peter Senge and a team of renowned educators and organizational change leaders, Schools that Learn describes how schools can adapt, grow, and change in the face of the demands and challenges of our society, and provides tools, techniques and references for bringing those aspirations to life.
The new revised and updated edition offers practical advice for overcoming the many challenges that face our communities and educational systems today. It shows teachers, administrators, students, parents and community members how to successfully use principles of organizational learning, including systems thinking and shared vision, to address the challenges that face our nation’s schools. In a fast-changing world where school populations are increasingly diverse, children live in ever-more-complex social and media environments, standardized tests are applied as overly simplistic “quick fixes,” and advances in science and technology continue to accelerate, the pressures on our educational system are inescapable. Schools That Learn offers a much-needed way to open dialogue about these problems – and provides pragmatic opportunities to transform school systems into learning organizations.
Drawing on observations and advice from more than 70 writers and experts on schools and education, this book features:
-Methods for implementing organizational learning and explanations of why they work
-Compelling stories and anecdotes from the “field” – classrooms, schools, and communities
-Charts, tables and diagrams to illustrate systems thinking and other practices
-Guiding principles for how to apply innovative practices in all types of school systems
-Individual exercises useful for both teachers and students
-Team exercises to foster communication within the classroom, school, or community group
-New essays on topics like educating for sustainability, systems thinking in the classroom, and “the great game of high school.”
-New recommendations for related books, articles, videotapes and web sites
-And more
Schools That Learn is the essential guide for anyone who cares about the future of education and keeping our nation’s schools competitive in our fast-changing world.
Publisher : Crown Currency; Updated edition (July 31, 2012)
Language : English
Paperback : 608 pages
ISBN-10 : 0385518226
ISBN-13 : 978-0385518222
Item Weight : 2.65 pounds
Dimensions : 7.23 x 1.35 x 9 inches
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Maragon1821 –
PSenge is right!
Most of the 99% people in the whole world educate in a wrong way to their children. We know that the future of our Countries, our cities and our families is in the hands of our children. It is very likely that our society will continue deteriorate with the kind of education and concepts we are transferring to our future generations. System thinking is the only correct way of thinking, we do not live in a linear world, but in an intricate system of systems we urgently need to understand to survive. As Jay Forrester said: Until we reach a much better public understanding of social systems, attempts to develop corrective programs for social troubles will continue to be disappointing. Unfortunately Peter Senge stays short, because his recommendations should go to home school, which is ultimately the complete corrective mechanism to have better generations, jointly with system thinking. Our world urgently needs this kind of education, but I’m afraid that is too late to change the direction of the human race. At least, to those who understand, we can make substantial changes in our families and, chances are, that in our local communities as well.
Al Correa –
Finally! Someone who GETS IT!!!!
If you want a book that takes an honest, unbiased approach to the challenges facing public education. Then this is it.Senge has a well deserved reputation as a cutting edge theorist on how organizations need to operate in order to become, and remain, healthy. His application of these thories to educational organizations is both refreshing and enlightening.It was hard not to highlight something on every page. To those of us with long careers in public education, it is a clear articulation (and a validation) of lots of often vague feelings we have had regarding the direction of our organizations.Thanks Peter, et al for your insights!
Jesus A Uriarte –
insightful and well-researched educational facts supported by examples
Even though it is a little too dense and wordy at times, the book presents insightful and well-researched educational facts supported by examples.
Dr. Thomas Mallory Hill –
Organizational Learning for Schools
Oftentimes when an author or group of authors collaborate on serving those of us who desperately want to improve organizations and to present material in a systemic way, “Schools that Learn” and Perter Senge, et al. have done it again.Thank you young people for offering your time, energy, and resources to bring us another and updated version of what is already a seminal resource in our industry.Thomas Mallory HillDoctoral Student at Argosy University on-line program
Benita G. –
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Ginger Coleman –
Good for educational reference
Book is being used for a doctoral program. Includes many applications to practice.
Doc BonBon –
Best book ever for promoting cultures of learning in the …
Best book ever for promoting cultures of learning in the school. Peter Senge is an excellent writer with creative ideas to helping students experience success. Every teacher should own this book!
TELMA KOCH –
Not straight to the point
Bought it for a graduate class. The problem when there are too many people involved in the writing: points are lost. This book could be half its length if it focused on being straightforward. Ok ideas but not innovative.
Amazon Customer –
Great school resource!
Juan Enrique Casas Rudbeck –
Simply wonderful!
susan george –
Good book well preserved and inviting…
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Cliente Amazon –
Este libro aporta una clara visión del modo de dirigir organizaciones educativas con el fin de que evolucionen y con la participación de todas las personas implicadas en ellas. Aporta estrategias, herramientas y metodologÃas para llevar todo esto a la práctica.