In class yesterday I was able to share my new thinking about organizations. I wrote about this in the previous post. I am beginning to picture the learning organization as an organism. The Quality Tools are like medicine. I will need to study for how this medicine impacts students, teachers, and parents.
I learned about social cognition yesterday. http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/soccog/soccog.html It describes how an individual's thinking is influenced by their context and the social network around them. I will be learning more about this for the dissertation.
In addition I ran across an organization that actually puts the thoughts I have been having into a graphical form. http://connectiveassociates.com/articles/picture_of_productivity.html
Here is a quote from their page: As sophisticated as these tools are mathematically, their visual impact is often even more powerful. Showing a group a network map of their relationships almost always produces a big “aha” moment. Individuals suddenly see how they are part of a whole system and shift perspective from “me” to “us.”
This is called SNA- social network analysis. I want to learn more about this now too.
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