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ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS

Socially Collaborative Schools

Socially Collaborative Schools

The Heretic's Guide to Mixed-Age Tutor Groups, System Design, and the Goal of Goodness

ISBN: 9781475844320
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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 systems 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.


By Peter A. Barnard

Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS

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Format: PAPERBACK

Pages: 300

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section One: The School as a Living System




  1. Systems, Purposes, and Problems –A First Look

  2. Reacting to Disturbances

  3. From Collaborative Professionalism to Social Collaboration

  4. The Pusher, the Puller and Thinking Differently

  5. The School as a Living System: Disturbance and Fast Fixes

  6. More Disturbance –Bullying

  7. Mental Health and Systems

  8. The School as a Viable System

  9. Wicked problems and Parent Partnership

  10. Distributed Leadership, Psychology and Collective Teacher Efficacy



Section Two: The Long and Winding Road to the Socially Collaborative School




  1. A First Management Trawl

  2. From New Public Management (NPM) to Public Value Management (PVM)

  3. The Problem of Deliverology

  4. Talent Management and a First Look at Teams

  5. Google and Emerging Thinking

  6. School Culture

  7. Learning from the Public Sector

  8. Learning Organizations and the Color Teal

  9. The Buurtzorg School

  10. Moving from Complicated to Complex: the Strange Case of the Effect List

  11. Concluding Remarks: Two Management Models and Systems Thinking



Chapter Summaries

Appendices

Bibliography

About the Author


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Author Bio

Peter A Barnard is a retired school principal, and now runs his own international school consultancy. He has written five books on system change and is the acknowledged expert on mixed-age organization (vertical tutoring) and schools as systems.