The teacher in the learning organisation

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The teacher in the learning organisation

• Sølvi Lillejord
• University of Bergen

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The mission

• What is a teacher?
• What is a learning organisation?
• What is a teacher in a learning organisation

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What is a teacher??
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What is a teacher?

• Occupation
• Employed
• Certified
• Assigned
• Trained
• Educated

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What is a teacher?
What does a teacher do?
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What does a teacher do?

• Teaches
• Helps students learn
• Gives lessons
• Instructs
• Provides educational content

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Amor Librorum
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Pedagogical incentives

• Continous feedback
• Lectures should be inspiring, invigorating, and
  challenging
• Experience Quality?
• The teacher 30
• Leading the students forward

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What is a learning organisation?

• Metaphor
• Symbol or substance
• Idea or reality
• Policy or practice

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Political visions
Learning organisations
I have a dream
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Democratic processes
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Christmas tree schools (Bryk)
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What kind of an organisation is this?
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New College, Oxford (1379)
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Social Construction of Reality

• Homo Sapiens is also Homo Socius
• A learning environment is a social product, not
  something a teacher can establish alone

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A simple organisation?
KD
KS/U-Dir
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What is a profession?
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What is a profession?
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What is a profession?
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The outer limits of the profession
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Professional work
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Master- apprentice learning
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Professionell development google

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Professional freedom
Subject content knowledge
Practical knowledge
Professional knowledge
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Professional ideals professional awareness
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Teaching is communication
Listen and learn, children!
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Feeding hungry small ones
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The dream team?
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Changing youth culture
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Globalisation
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What is threatening politics?
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What is threatening the profession?

• Mission Statement
• A community of educators,
• advocating sound policies
• and sharing best practices
• to achieve the success
• of each learner.

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Democracy

• Democracy is the worst form of government,
  except all the others that have been tried
• Winston Churchill

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Yes, Minister
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Professional work
Subject content knowledge
Practical knowledge
Professional knowledge
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A new perspective on practice

• Instruction is a practice that a practitioner may
  learn how to improve
• Schools must learn to forget their old practices
  so that they can explore new possibilities and
  exploit existing traditions

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A new authority

• Learning is not necessarily an outcome of
  harmonious learning environments, but also the
  productive outcome of challenges, resistance and
  conflicts
• We need a new perspective on authority in schools
  and a renewed conception of the teachers
  authority

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Educational knowledge

• In order for schools to turn into learning
  organisations, teachers must develop some sort of
  professional knowledge that binds them together
  as a professional group.

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Thank you!