Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from March 1999

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from March 1999

Applying Systems Thinking to Higher Education.
March 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION Higher education (HE) around the world is undergoing transition. But what type of thinking is governing this change? Will the change be more of the same--predominantly first-order change -- or will the sector be managed in...

A Conversational Framework for Individual Learning Applied to the `Learning Organisation' and the `Learning Society'.
March 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION University teachers must be the most surprisingly unreflective of all professional practitioners. While happy to theorise about every last corner of the human and natural world, the core activity of our professional work --...

A Systems Failures View of the UK National Commission into Higher Education Report.
March 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION The 1993 Context In 1991 the UK government issued a White Paper which proposed changes to the administration of higher education throughout the UK and by that autumn the government had introduced a Bill for England and...

Systems Thinking in Higher Education: Learning Comes to Focus.
March 1, 1999... It is difficult to find an academic who has a clearly articulated theory of learning, or who would even believe it to be their business to have one. (Diana Laurillard) PART ONE: WHO HAS TIME FOR THAT? I have found stories...

The Future's Digital, Isn't It? Some Experience and Forecasts Based on the Open University's Technology Foundation Course.
March 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION The Open University is one of the world's largest distance teaching organisations, and has been at the forefront of a range of educational developments since its inception in 1969. Its clientele of adult learners are, in a...

A Systemic Perspective on Higher Education in the United Kingdom.
March 1, 1999... Open University Business School Management Learning Research Unit, Milton Keynes, UK INTRODUCTION Whilst many concerned groups, such as radical educators and sociologists, generate debate within the domains of their disciplines about...

Re-creating Universities for `Beyond the Stable State': From `Dearingesque' Systematic Control to Post-Dearing Systemic Learning and Inquiry.
March 1, 1999... This paper considers the limitations (excluding funding) of the UK Dearing Report and likely influences of what might be considered `Dearingesque proposals', increasingly invoked throughout the world as `solutions' to the challenges of `the...

Systems and Transformation at the University of Natal(a).
March 1, 1999... South Africa is an extraordinary country in which to live. What makes it extraordinary at this period in its history is that virtually every law, policy, rule and way of doing things is being changed. It is also extraordinary in that ordinary...

News.
March 1, 1999... A range of forthcoming events are announced in this News section. Those organizing conferences or other events are urged to make use of this page for pre-event promotion. We also welcome follow-up reports from anyone attending a conference...

Making Strategy: The Journey of Strategic Management.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Making Strategy: The Journey of Strategic Management. By Colin Eden and Frank Ackermann. Published by Sage, 1998, 460 pp., 24.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 7619 5224 1 (paperback). A quick flip through this substantial book will convince you...