Comments on: How our structures shape us http://www.jarche.com/2007/04/how-our-structures-shape-us/ Life in Perpetual Beta Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:59:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: CircleReader http://www.jarche.com/2007/04/how-our-structures-shape-us/comment-page-1/#comment-190393 CircleReader Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:59:53 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=1133#comment-190393 This is what makes me distrust "highly qualified teachers are the key" types of school reform proposals. Improving the skills of teachers - or letting them improve each other's skill - is great, but it won't make much difference until we ask those teachers to play a different role in a different sort of system. This is what makes me distrust “highly qualified teachers are the key” types of school reform proposals. Improving the skills of teachers – or letting them improve each other’s skill – is great, but it won’t make much difference until we ask those teachers to play a different role in a different sort of system.

]]> By: Harold http://www.jarche.com/2007/04/how-our-structures-shape-us/comment-page-1/#comment-115125 Harold Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:47:21 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=1133#comment-115125 I think that you would have to plan how best to escape the system, and it might take some time. In the meantime, teachers could help the students to think for themselves. Carrying around copies of books like, "Teaching Defiance" or "The Homework Myth" might start some interesting conversations at school. I think that you would have to plan how best to escape the system, and it might take some time. In the meantime, teachers could help the students to think for themselves. Carrying around copies of books like, “Teaching Defiance” or “The Homework Myth” might start some interesting conversations at school.

]]> By: Aaron http://www.jarche.com/2007/04/how-our-structures-shape-us/comment-page-1/#comment-115096 Aaron Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:30:11 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=1133#comment-115096 <blockquote>Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you cannot change the way things work in an organisation. The problem may be the organisational model itself and it may be better to leave and create an alternative model than to help keep a flawed one going.</blockquote> I think there are many organisatonal workers within the system who intuitively understand this, but so many suffer from not knowing how, in a very real and practical way, to create this change. With families to feed and bills to pay, how does the average teacher, for example, leave an established institution to create something more humane?

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you cannot change the way things work in an organisation. The problem may be the organisational model itself and it may be better to leave and create an alternative model than to help keep a flawed one going.

I think there are many organisatonal workers within the system who intuitively understand this, but so many suffer from not knowing how, in a very real and practical way, to create this change. With families to feed and bills to pay, how does the average teacher, for example, leave an established institution to create something more humane?

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