Foreword
Preface
Prologue The Systems Thinking School
Chapter 1 Systems Maintenance
Chapter 2 A Systems Thinking Approach
Chapter 3 The Systems Thinking Process
Chapter 4 Wicked Problems, Schools, and Systemic Change
Chapter 5 Wicked Problems and Loopy Solutions
Chapter 6 Applying Single-loop Strategies to Double-loop
Problems
Chapter 7 Reform and Variation as Wicked Problems
Chapter 8 Child Development, Customer Care, and Adaptive Systems
Thinking
Chapter 9 The School as an Interconnected Learning Process
Chapter 10 Mixed-Age Mentoring
Chapter 11 What Schools Say: Lessons for Managers
Chapter 12 Building the Systems Thinking School
Chapter 13 Assessment for Learning
Chapter 14 Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Peter A Barnard has been involved in education for over 40 years as a successful high school principal, trainer and writer. He is a passionate advocate of vertical tutoring as the managerial means of both understanding and meeting the many challenges that schools face internationally.
Peter Barnard draws upon his extensive leadership experience to lay
out a provocative and stimulating approach to school improvement.
Calling for no less than a revolution in the way we think about
schools, Barnard demands rigor and intellect from those charged
with leading the education of the next generation. But this is
theory grounded in practice and will be an invaluable tool to
anyone interested in making our schools better.
*Sir David Bell KCB, Vice-Chancellor University of Reading*
At the heart of Peter Barnard’s groundbreaking but striking
analysis of the industrial school model, is a plea to stop
tinkering with peripheral parts, reforms and add-ons, and to see
each school as a complete organisational system in its own right.
In his book, Barnard unlocks the secrets of the Industrial model’s
longevity and shows schools how to self-organize and be
interconnected. Only by understanding and then abandoning the
industrial model and its effects can there be renewed purpose and
relevance in the C21st. This book shows schools and administrators
precisely what is wrong and how to put it right at no cost!
*Dr. Tony Breslin, Chair, Human Scale Education, Founder, Transform
Education*
This book represents a comprehensive demolition of many of the
orthodoxies and assumptions that have dogged educational leadership
for years; not least the factory system of education where we
blindly (and inhumanely) batch and process children according to
their date of manufacture. What makes this book so singularly
impressive is that it is written from an academic, indeed an
idealistic, point of view by someone who is intensely pragmatic:
someone who’s been there and got the ‘T’ shirt. The book fizzes
with ideas and has helped me to redefine and refocus on what is
important in the school that I lead.
*Andrew Warren, Headteacher, Coleg Cymunedol y Dderwen, Bridgend,
South Wales*
Peter Barnard takes us on a journey that analyses how the linearity
of the ubiquitous industrial school mode acts to place limits on
teaching and learning. Using these insights we are presented with a
litany of practical design ideas needed to create a learning
organisation. He calls this vertical tutoring, a cultural change
that inspires positive learning relationships, and which is at the
heart of his vision for education in the 21st Century. We read his
book and listened to what he had to say and as a result many
aspects of our school have been transformed.
*Martyn Henson, Headteacher, the Nobel School, Stevenage, Herts.,
Former Vice Principal, Fortismere School, London*
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