Replying to LO30091 --
Replying to Don Ledingham in LO30091 --
>I left the Learning Organization mailing list nearly three years ago when
>I was appointed to my current position as Headteacher/Principal of Dunbar
>Grammar School (a Scottish secondary school.)
>
>I have been using the principles of learning organizations as a guide to
>my behaviour and am glad to report it seems to have been very successful
>to date.
>
>I'm picking up my Ph.D thesis (which I had stepped back from when
>appointed to this job) entitled "The School as a Learning Organization:
>From Theory to Practice" One of the things I'd like to do is to create a
>model of the change process in schools using the systems dynamics
>approach. Does anyone know of work undertaken in this field?
A great deal of work was done with respect to introducing systems thinking
into school systems and in changing the schools themselves. There is a
system dynamics list with many of the relevant players on it. They will
know whereof you seek. You can find out more about the system dynamics
list at the link below.
http://www.vensim.com/sdmail/sdinfo.html
Fred Nickols
nickols@safe-t.net
--Fred Nickols <nickols@safe-t.net>
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