Wheatley

The 'Bringing Schools back to life' article said this to me:

* Top down change will fail, reductionist analysis will fail
* we are all part of complex systems
* if we are going to change everyone needs to be involved
* It takes great effort to understand what people actually want
* living systems organise themselves around shared interests
* the system has the seeds of growth within it - it only needs to hear/see itself better and include every member in the process (the members are always bigger than what appears on the official stats)
* if the system discovers something meaningful to it the information will pass through it like a flash
* process, process, process...


Wheatly's web site

Wikipedia on Wheatley

writings:
Bringing Schools back to Life