Peter Barnard – Google

At the heart of the book is a problem or two involving exactly what a learning organisation is, what collaboration means and how does it occur, what knowledge is harvested and valued, and how such transformation occurs. The real problem is the absence of answers. It seems that schools can be judged as LOs without having to change anything; i.e. as long as they can tick all the old boxes they can call themselve LOs; no structural change required. This book is still priceless to those of us interested in systems and the paradigm change that the book seeks. Wales, for all its efforts has been poorly advised and this initiative will garner only minor improvement for a simple reason. The Welsh authorities have no idea about how an LO works let alone what it looks like. Same-age school organisation limits collaboration and the release of knowledge needed for adaptation. Put simply, such schools lack complexity and this is what needs to be understood far in advance of conceptualising the mythical LO.