Chapter 9: Learning Communities at Work

Supporting material

Behaviourism: The Modern Past

Max Weber on Bureaucracy
Rosabeth Moss Kanter on nursery school bureaucracy
‘No child left behind’
Kohn on standardised tests
Thayer on the teacher-bureaucrat

Brain developmentalism: More recent times

Jane Addams: Hull-House
The future museum and the future school
Friedman on school vouchers
Caldwell and Spinks: The self-managing school
Fullan on school leadership
KIPP: 3D Academy, Houston
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Academy, Lansing Michigan

Social cognitivism: New Learning

Virtual high schools
James Gee on video games and learning
The school of the future
Using action research to improve education
We talk about teaching, not trivia
The role of collegial support
Time for reflection and professional dialogue
Being a good teacher is being a good learner

Keywords

Informal learning
Formal learning
Bureaucratic
Self-managing
Collaborative

Knowledge processes

Experiencing the known
Experiencing the new
Conceptualising by naming
Conceptualising with theory
Analysing functionally
Analysing critically
Applying appropriately
Applying creatively

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