Saturday, April 12, 2008

Moving from Traditional Management Theory toward The School as a Moral Community

In Chapters 3,4, and 5 we discussed the process of moving away from a system of Traditional Management and toward creating the School as a Moral Community. For our discussion I would like to focus on the following aspects. Traditional management theory is best suited to situations in which the need exists to bring about a routine level of competence and performance. However, the usefulness of this theory ends when the goal is to bring about extraordinary commitment and performance. However, based on the School as a Moral Community we need to create communities of practice within which the individual practices of teachers are informally connected to each other in such a way that a single shared practice of teaching begins to emerge. What is the current practice at your respective school that provides evidence that you are moving toward creating the School as a Moral Community?