Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents arguments for adopting a Systems way of Thinking about developing schools to become in sync with the times, both locally and globally. Systems Thinking and Quality Management both are natural approaches for educators to adapt schooling to the rapid changes of life today in a global context. The chapters include strong rationales for adopting a more natural way of thinking about schooling, one that prepares students for life as it is now evolving around the world. Stories of success are abundant, which offer evidence of the power of a systems approach to leading school development in the complex context of schooling today. Research studies report up-to-date evidence of the power of Systems Thinking to continuously adapt schooling to changing conditions.
Trade ReviewFinally, a book that in a scientific and accurate way addresses system thinking and sustainable development as the education sector's important future challenge. Through the authors' different perspectives, reading becomes both interesting and entertaining. I recommend this book to anyone active in education, and to others interested in these same challenges for society at large.
-- Hakan Wiklund, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Mid Sweden University, Sweden
Table of ContentsSeries Editor Introduction
Foreword
Skardon Bliss & Janet Greenwood
Editors’ Introduction
Karolyn J. Snyder & Kristen M. Snyder
Tribute to Joyce B. Swarzman, Kristen Snyder
- Systems Thinking and Sustainable Schooling: Foundations in Physics
Karolyn J. Snyder
- Expanding How We Think about Quality in Education
Kristen M. Snyder
- A Quantum Worldview of Responsive Power for Sustainable Learning
Michele Acker-Hocevar
- The Quantum School Leader as a Strategic Systems Thinker
Elaine C. Sullivan
- Networking for Principal Sustainability
David Scanga & Renee Sedlack
- The Beginnings of Collaboration in Schools: Team Teaching,
Nongradedness, and Multi-Aged Grouping
Robert H. Anderson
Introduction by Karolyn J. Snyder & Joyce B. Swarzman
- Approaching Systems Thinking in Schools by Linking Quality and
Sustainability: Moving from Theory to Practice
Anna Martensson & Kristen M. Snyder
- Appreciative School Systems: A Path to School Success
John Mann
- Toward the School as a Sustainable Global Learning Center System
John Fitzgerald & Elaine C. Sullivan
About the Editors and Other Authors
