Organizational learning : improving learning, teaching, and leading in school systems / Vivienne Collinson, Tanya Fedoruk Cook.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index.

New ways of thinking: new ways of learning -- Organizational learning: original sources and perspectives -- Core assumptions of organizational learning perspectives -- Ensuring a cycle of continuous learning -- Organizational learning as renewal -- Prioritizing learning for all members: the primary condition -- Fostering inquiry and its collateral learning -- Facilitating the dissemination of learning -- Practicing democratic principles -- Attending to human relationships -- Providing for members' self-fulfillment -- Organizational learning -- How research can help schools and systems move forward.

"Organizational Learning: Improving Learning, Teaching, and Leading in School Systems defines organizational learning, provides its theoretical foundations, and identifies six interrelated conditions that appear to foster organizational learning in schools and school systems: prioritizing learning for all members, fostering inquiry, facilitating the dissemination of knowledge, practicing democratic principles, attending to human relationships, and providing for members? self-fulfillment. The authors use practical examples and an on-going case study to illustrate concepts of organizational learning and its application to schools and school systems. They also provide practitioners with opportunities to digest and apply information to their own settings with a series of essential questions, activities and ideas for getting started, areas for inquiry, and reflective journal questions.Meet the author! http://home.comcast.net/~vcollinson"--Publisher description.

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