We've had school that teach for too long!
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Peter Senge's team deserves a hearty compliment for making the point in this book at last that if schools do not become places where we can learn, where the teachers demonstrate learning itself before the children, they cannot possibly expect the students to want to keep learning after school. I have used the ideas for training teachers and school administrators in Pakistan and have found a great resonance in all participants.
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A useful tool for school leaders
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Peter Senge has built upon his thesis of learning organisations to offer school leaders an insight into how the eduactional world might be inspired to improve through the application of his methods. This is a thought provoking book: schools exist to promote learning but, argue the authors, need help in learning themselves. The book is successful in assisting those working in our schools make sense of organisational learning and tackles some of the key ideas being discussed in headteacher training and development right now. How do you decide what your core purposes are, how can you get consistent commitment to core principles, how can governors be involved in whole school learning? Powerfully, this book brings home what successful school managers have known all along: there is scope for developing intelligent organisations with a clarity of focus and strength of vision to transform the day to day transactions between pupils and teachers and boost the learning and achievement of the whole school community.
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