The Synergy Network PAGE TWO
A new World Order
continued
The Freemasons who founded our country - believed in a New Secular
world, with the liberity to make possible a more rational cooperation
among the people. Free markets make for MORE SYNERGY
and the internet is open and a really free market..
The "Learning Organization" the Fifth Disicipline
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The
first page is long and contains many links, it was the index page
but took too long to load (On Prodigy it took up to 4 minutes)
I am working on the links, graphics, it's a job.
The editors I
use are Word 6 with Web assistant and Front Page. What I see is
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THE IDEA FACTORY: Synergy is an alterative reality, and idea
space, a multi=dimensions alternative, the design is open.
The
first week we had 730 visitors ( each page open is counted not
IP numbers ) the second week 1,321, last week 27,079, what will
the report be on Monday ?
Where do you come from ?
The search engines
use "wiredbrain" ( http://www.yahoo.com
and http://www.excite.com
I don't think have the information ? ) Personal contacts ( the
electronic grapevine ) , are you students, tech types, interested
in SUFI, schools, organizations, ethics, meaning, personal potential,
WHO ARE YOU ?
WHERE IS YOUR CLAN TERRITORY ( two must see files are Peter
Weir's
The Last Wave and Peter Brook's Meeting with Remarkable
Men )
Synergy Net is a new primitive life form that will take shape
with participation. Wander around in many leveled idea space.
Every trip and experience is different. I wish people would
write me so I knew what they are doing ? Are they using the files,
are they using the external links, the guides to the INTERNET,
the fifth dimension, WHAT IS GOING ON ?
Current Projects SYNERGY..NET
- Todays Letter.Tuesday, December 12, 1995.
- RE: Human Synergistics (International) info@humansyn.com
- What I am doing on the URL is to experiment with groups within
existing technology and explore the possibilities of future technologies.
Now people can communicate by E-mail, as we are doing. We could
join Chat groups, a newsgroup, or newsletter on synergy, some
of us have I-phone, CuSeeMe, et al. Netscape now integrates E-mail,
newsgroups, (listserv mail), and will have FTP very soon (I guess).
What about Synergy in this technology
The system itself is a product
of synergy, a lot of people doing different things but connected
to the WWW, and the process takes off like crazy ?
- Most human interaction involves non-verbal, visual and sense
perception clues. We piece together our realities using the vast
resources of body-mind experience, conscious and un-conscious
perceptions - tone of voice, body language, context, transference,
projection, syntax, and the more we know about bio-chemical and
neurological aspect of perception and information processing the
more wonderful human social perceptions become, but they are internal
and subject to vast and uncertain error.
- So, we have a human animal evolved on the basis of groups,
of group dynamics involving language and empathic symbolic projections
called synergy. Can some of this energy be done at a distance
on the tools now possible or will it happen in the near future
with better tools. Have you looked at remote work-groups and how
a "meeting", joint effort work at a distance ? Building
constructive styles, affiliative, humanistic, support groups working
together but physically apart must be very different than face
to face.
- I have developed a set of group activities designed to encourage
the Constructive styles you find in your research make for productive
groups.
The activities are designed to work through the aggressive
and passive barriers that prevent groups form "turning on".
Any teacher knows when the light is turned on, when the groups
takes off, there is excitement in the air, and synergy happens.
Can we promote that outcome ( in a statistically significant way
) in a sample of groups ? Can it be done at a distance ?
- Your methods seem to depend on the awareness of problems helps
in solving problems. Sure, but the next step are structured activities
that encourage the desired outcomes - by practice in open and
creative groups. How do you learn anything, practice, practice,
practice. How do you change perceptions, by changing the ecology,
the climate, the environment and giving people experience in the
new methods, atmosphere, in the new world order.
The new economy
require creative, innovate people.
The old school system produces
factory workers, who don't know what to do when they have no instruction,
and it's never been done before.
- I am doing everyday something never done before. So are thousands,
or millions of others. It's not an orderly, step-by-step process
and we need help, the support and creativity of a group. And a
high tolerance for mess, sloppiness, mistakes, and false starts.
7up. (what happened to # 1 to 6) No one get's it right from the
beginning.
- Classroom techniques, workshops, and even remote Web based
activities may work well enough to make a difference.
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Contact Information !INDEX OF DOCUMENTS
/documents/pathos/ ONE
The
structure (MIND BODY AND SOUL) X Y AND Z -----ONE B
then /documents/pathos/ TWO
-------TWO B
and /documents/pathos/ THREE
----THREE B
AND /documents/pathos/3C
ETHOS ONE
Children of the Dust Bowl and group dynamics Powerful methods
and --- ETHOS ONE B
ETHOS TWO
and --- ETHOS 2B
and -- ETHOS THREE and
ETHOS THREE B
and ETHOS4 and
ETHOS FOUR B
LOGOS ONE
General Syntems and the ecology of rational policy (management
and leadership ) and LOGOS 1B
LOSOS TWO and
LOSOS 2B and
-- LOGOS THREE and
Logos 3B
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The Emotional Basis for Change
/documents/pathos/ - the whole person, feeling WHAT IS A FEELING
...
RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
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Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
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University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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A new World Order
continued
The Freemasons who founded our country - believed in a New Secular
world, with the liberity to make possible a more rational cooperation
among the people. Free markets make for MORE SYNERGY
and the internet is open and a really free market..
The "Learning Organization" the Fifth Disicipline
Send documents to: pflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cflpflaump@cfl.rr.comcfpflaump@cfpflaump@cfpflaump@cfl.rr.comif" align="bottom" width="110" height="70">
Dr. Peter Pflaum
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08, 1995
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A history of this enterprise at
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Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D., Headmaster
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225 Robinson Road, New Smyrna Beach FL 32169-2176 (904) 428+7924
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- How This Network is Different
The
first page is long and contains many links, it was the index page
but took too long to load (On Prodigy it took up to 4 minutes)
I am working on the links, graphics, it's a job.
The editors I
use are Word 6 with Web assistant and Front Page. What I see is
not what I get on the net. I do NEED HELP, sign in and become
a web master. You can fix them yourself, add your own pages, create
a place for us all. Instructions on FTP link
- SITES sent me MARION BRADY who is into the Whole :
. http://user s.aol.com/gmbrady/private/index.htm
- OR now on Synergy BRADY.HTM
and your pages here !!!
- NOW here he is on our files pages without picture that needs to be send. He will have his own space in brady soon. ANYONE can do THIS !!!
- Are You Ready for this ?- Contact Synergy Information
- Comments and Suggestions SYNERGY-NET
on http://www.wiredbrain.net
Current Projects
RE: Come on Try IT !
If you are reading this on Netscape 2b the hyperlink will
Click on and you will see our Synergy Net in your mail reader
( to get the program go to http://www.netscape.com
). You need a direct provider ( to find a local provider http://thelist.com ).
A good place to start is MSN search option ( http://www.home.msn.com ).
When you get the / index go to first and you will
see this letter. YOU can e-mail me your comments or ideas and
the same will happen to your letter or files.
You can use attachment in the E-mail or just send letter which
I can paste to the web pages. Your material then will be files
under /new.
THE IDEA FACTORY: Synergy is an alterative reality, and idea
space, a multi=dimensions alternative, the design is open.
The
first week we had 730 visitors ( each page open is counted not
IP numbers ) the second week 1,321, last week 27,079, what will
the report be on Monday ?
Where do you come from ?
The search engines
use "wiredbrain" ( http://www.yahoo.com
and http://www.excite.com
I don't think have the information ? ) Personal contacts ( the
electronic grapevine ) , are you students, tech types, interested
in SUFI, schools, organizations, ethics, meaning, personal potential,
WHO ARE YOU ?
WHERE IS YOUR CLAN TERRITORY ( two must see files are Peter
Weir's
The Last Wave and Peter Brook's Meeting with Remarkable
Men )
Synergy Net is a new primitive life form that will take shape
with participation. Wander around in many leveled idea space.
Every trip and experience is different. I wish people would
write me so I knew what they are doing ? Are they using the files,
are they using the external links, the guides to the INTERNET,
the fifth dimension, WHAT IS GOING ON ?
Current Projects SYNERGY..NET
- Todays Letter.Tuesday, December 12, 1995.
- RE: Human Synergistics (International) info@humansyn.com
- What I am doing on the URL is to experiment with groups within
existing technology and explore the possibilities of future technologies.
Now people can communicate by E-mail, as we are doing. We could
join Chat groups, a newsgroup, or newsletter on synergy, some
of us have I-phone, CuSeeMe, et al. Netscape now integrates E-mail,
newsgroups, (listserv mail), and will have FTP very soon (I guess).
What about Synergy in this technology
The system itself is a product
of synergy, a lot of people doing different things but connected
to the WWW, and the process takes off like crazy ?
- Most human interaction involves non-verbal, visual and sense
perception clues. We piece together our realities using the vast
resources of body-mind experience, conscious and un-conscious
perceptions - tone of voice, body language, context, transference,
projection, syntax, and the more we know about bio-chemical and
neurological aspect of perception and information processing the
more wonderful human social perceptions become, but they are internal
and subject to vast and uncertain error.
- So, we have a human animal evolved on the basis of groups,
of group dynamics involving language and empathic symbolic projections
called synergy. Can some of this energy be done at a distance
on the tools now possible or will it happen in the near future
with better tools. Have you looked at remote work-groups and how
a "meeting", joint effort work at a distance ? Building
constructive styles, affiliative, humanistic, support groups working
together but physically apart must be very different than face
to face.
- I have developed a set of group activities designed to encourage
the Constructive styles you find in your research make for productive
groups.
The activities are designed to work through the aggressive
and passive barriers that prevent groups form "turning on".
Any teacher knows when the light is turned on, when the groups
takes off, there is excitement in the air, and synergy happens.
Can we promote that outcome ( in a statistically significant way
) in a sample of groups ? Can it be done at a distance ?
- Your methods seem to depend on the awareness of problems helps
in solving problems. Sure, but the next step are structured activities
that encourage the desired outcomes - by practice in open and
creative groups. How do you learn anything, practice, practice,
practice. How do you change perceptions, by changing the ecology,
the climate, the environment and giving people experience in the
new methods, atmosphere, in the new world order.
The new economy
require creative, innovate people.
The old school system produces
factory workers, who don't know what to do when they have no instruction,
and it's never been done before.
- I am doing everyday something never done before. So are thousands,
or millions of others. It's not an orderly, step-by-step process
and we need help, the support and creativity of a group. And a
high tolerance for mess, sloppiness, mistakes, and false starts.
7up. (what happened to # 1 to 6) No one get's it right from the
beginning.
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ETHOS ONE
Children of the Dust Bowl and group dynamics Powerful methods
and --- ETHOS ONE B
ETHOS TWO
and --- ETHOS 2B
and -- ETHOS THREE and
ETHOS THREE B
and ETHOS4 and
ETHOS FOUR B
LOGOS ONE
General Syntems and the ecology of rational policy (management
and leadership ) and LOGOS 1B
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LOSOS 2B and
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RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
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Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
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GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE
225 Robinson Road, New Smyrna Beach FL 32169-2176 (904) 428+7924
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Contents
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- How This Network is Different
The
first page is long and contains many links, it was the index page
but took too long to load (On Prodigy it took up to 4 minutes)
I am working on the links, graphics, it's a job.
The editors I
use are Word 6 with Web assistant and Front Page. What I see is
not what I get on the net. I do NEED HELP, sign in and become
a web master. You can fix them yourself, add your own pages, create
a place for us all. Instructions on FTP link
- SITES sent me MARION BRADY who is into the Whole :
. http://user s.aol.com/gmbrady/private/index.htm
- OR now on Synergy BRADY.HTM
and your pages here !!!
- NOW here he is on our files pages without picture that needs to be send. He will have his own space in brady soon. ANYONE can do THIS !!!
- Are You Ready for this ?- Contact Synergy Information
- Comments and Suggestions SYNERGY-NET
on http://www.wiredbrain.net
Current Projects
RE: Come on Try IT !
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Click on and you will see our Synergy Net in your mail reader
( to get the program go to http://www.netscape.com
). You need a direct provider ( to find a local provider http://thelist.com ).
A good place to start is MSN search option ( http://www.home.msn.com ).
When you get the / index go to first and you will
see this letter. YOU can e-mail me your comments or ideas and
the same will happen to your letter or files.
You can use attachment in the E-mail or just send letter which
I can paste to the web pages. Your material then will be files
under /new.
THE IDEA FACTORY: Synergy is an alterative reality, and idea
space, a multi=dimensions alternative, the design is open.
The
first week we had 730 visitors ( each page open is counted not
IP numbers ) the second week 1,321, last week 27,079, what will
the report be on Monday ?
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Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D., Headmaster
GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE
225 Robinson Road, New Smyrna Beach FL 32169-2176 (904) 428+7924
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Contents
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- How This Network is Different
The
first page is long and contains many links, it was the index page
but took too long to load (On Prodigy it took up to 4 minutes)
I am working on the links, graphics, it's a job.
The editors I
use are Word 6 with Web assistant and Front Page. What I see is
not what I get on the net. I do NEED HELP, sign in and become
a web master. You can fix them yourself, add your own pages, create
a place for us all. Instructions on FTP link
- SITES sent me MARION BRADY who is into the Whole :
. http://user s.aol.com/gmbrady/private/index.htm
- OR now on Synergy BRADY.HTM
and your pages here !!!
- NOW here he is on our files pages without picture that needs to be send. He will have his own space in brady soon. ANYONE can do THIS !!!
- Are You Ready for this ?- Contact Synergy Information
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Current Projects
RE: Come on Try IT !
If you are reading this on Netscape 2b the hyperlink will
Click on and you will see our Synergy Net in your mail reader
( to get the program go to http://www.netscape.com
). You need a direct provider ( to find a local provider http://thelist.com ).
A good place to start is MSN search option ( http://www.home.msn.com ).
When you get the / index go to first and you will
see this letter. YOU can e-mail me your comments or ideas and
the same will happen to your letter or files.
You can use attachment in the E-mail or just send letter which
I can paste to the web pages. Your material then will be files
under /new.
THE IDEA FACTORY: Synergy is an alterative reality, and idea
space, a multi=dimensions alternative, the design is open.
The
first week we had 730 visitors ( each page open is counted not
IP numbers ) the second week 1,321, last week 27,079, what will
the report be on Monday ?
GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE
225 Robinson Road, New Smyrna Beach FL 32169-2176 (904) 428+7924
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Contents
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- How This Network is Different
The
first page is long and contains many links, it was the index page
but took too long to load (On Prodigy it took up to 4 minutes)
I am working on the links, graphics, it's a job.
The editors I
use are Word 6 with Web assistant and Front Page. What I see is
not what I get on the net. I do NEED HELP, sign in and become
a web master. You can fix them yourself, add your own pages, create
a place for us all. Instructions on FTP link
- SITES sent me MARION BRADY who is into the Whole :
. http://user s.aol.com/gmbrady/private/index.htm
- OR now on Synergy BRADY.HTM
and your pages here !!!
- NOW here he is on our files pages without picture that needs to be send. He will have his own space in brady soon. ANYONE can do THIS !!!
- Are You Ready for this ?- Contact Synergy Information
- Comments and Suggestions SYNERGY-NET
on http://www.wiredbrain.net
Current Projects
RE: Come on Try IT !
If you are reading this on Netscape 2b the hyperlink will
Click on and you will see our Synergy Net in your mail reader
( to get the program go to http://www.netscape.com
). You need a direct provider ( to find a local provider http://thelist.com ).
A good place to start is MSN search option ( http://www.home.msn.com ).
When you get the / index go to first and you will
see this letter. YOU can e-mail me your comments or ideas and
the same will happen to your letter or files.
Contents
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- How This Network is Different
The
first page is long and contains many links, it was the index page
but took too long to load (On Prodigy it took up to 4 minutes)
I am working on the links, graphics, it's a job.
The editors I
use are Word 6 with Web assistant and Front Page. What I see is
not what I get on the net. I do NEED HELP, sign in and become
a web master. You can fix them yourself, add your own pages, create
a place for us all. Instructions on FTP link
- SITES sent me MARION BRADY who is into the Whole :
. http://user s.aol.com/gmbrady/private/index.htm
- OR now on Synergy BRADY.HTM
and your pages here !!!
- NOW here he is on our files pages without picture that needs to be send. He will have his own space in brady soon. ANYONE can do THIS !!!
- Are You Ready for this ?- Contact Synergy Information
- Comments and Suggestions SYNERGY-NET
on http://www.wiredbrain.net
Current Projects
RE: Come on Try IT !
- How This Network is Different
The first page is long and contains many links, it was the index page but took too long to load (On Prodigy it took up to 4 minutes) I am working on the links, graphics, it's a job.
The editors I use are Word 6 with Web assistant and Front Page. What I see is not what I get on the net. I do NEED HELP, sign in and become a web master. You can fix them yourself, add your own pages, create a place for us all. Instructions on FTP link
- SITES sent me MARION BRADY who is into the Whole : . http://user s.aol.com/gmbrady/private/index.htm
- OR now on Synergy BRADY.HTM and your pages here !!!
- NOW here he is on our files pages without picture that needs to be send. He will have his own space in brady soon. ANYONE can do THIS !!!
- Are You Ready for this ?- Contact Synergy Information
- Comments and Suggestions SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net
Current Projects
RE: Come on Try IT !
If you are reading this on Netscape 2b the hyperlink will Click on and you will see our Synergy Net in your mail reader ( to get the program go to http://www.netscape.com ). You need a direct provider ( to find a local provider http://thelist.com ). A good place to start is MSN search option ( http://www.home.msn.com ).
You can use attachment in the E-mail or just send letter which I can paste to the web pages. Your material then will be files under /new.
The first week we had 730 visitors ( each page open is counted not IP numbers ) the second week 1,321, last week 27,079, what will the report be on Monday ?
Where do you come from ?
The search engines
use "wiredbrain" ( http://www.yahoo.com
and http://www.excite.com
I don't think have the information ? ) Personal contacts ( the
electronic grapevine ) , are you students, tech types, interested
in SUFI, schools, organizations, ethics, meaning, personal potential,
WHO ARE YOU ?
The Last Wave and Peter Brook's Meeting with Remarkable
Men )
Synergy Net is a new primitive life form that will take shape
with participation. Wander around in many leveled idea space.
Every trip and experience is different. I wish people would
write me so I knew what they are doing ? Are they using the files,
are they using the external links, the guides to the INTERNET,
the fifth dimension, WHAT IS GOING ON ?
Current Projects SYNERGY..NET
- Todays Letter.Tuesday, December 12, 1995.
- RE: Human Synergistics (International) info@humansyn.com
- What I am doing on the URL is to experiment with groups within
existing technology and explore the possibilities of future technologies.
Now people can communicate by E-mail, as we are doing. We could
join Chat groups, a newsgroup, or newsletter on synergy, some
of us have I-phone, CuSeeMe, et al. Netscape now integrates E-mail,
newsgroups, (listserv mail), and will have FTP very soon (I guess).
What about Synergy in this technology
The system itself is a product
of synergy, a lot of people doing different things but connected
to the WWW, and the process takes off like crazy ?
- Most human interaction involves non-verbal, visual and sense
perception clues. We piece together our realities using the vast
resources of body-mind experience, conscious and un-conscious
perceptions - tone of voice, body language, context, transference,
projection, syntax, and the more we know about bio-chemical and
neurological aspect of perception and information processing the
more wonderful human social perceptions become, but they are internal
and subject to vast and uncertain error.
- So, we have a human animal evolved on the basis of groups,
of group dynamics involving language and empathic symbolic projections
called synergy. Can some of this energy be done at a distance
on the tools now possible or will it happen in the near future
with better tools. Have you looked at remote work-groups and how
a "meeting", joint effort work at a distance ? Building
constructive styles, affiliative, humanistic, support groups working
together but physically apart must be very different than face
to face.
- I have developed a set of group activities designed to encourage
the Constructive styles you find in your research make for productive
groups.
The activities are designed to work through the aggressive
and passive barriers that prevent groups form "turning on".
Any teacher knows when the light is turned on, when the groups
takes off, there is excitement in the air, and synergy happens.
Can we promote that outcome ( in a statistically significant way
) in a sample of groups ? Can it be done at a distance ?
- Your methods seem to depend on the awareness of problems helps
in solving problems. Sure, but the next step are structured activities
that encourage the desired outcomes - by practice in open and
creative groups. How do you learn anything, practice, practice,
practice. How do you change perceptions, by changing the ecology,
the climate, the environment and giving people experience in the
new methods, atmosphere, in the new world order.
The new economy
require creative, innovate people.
The old school system produces
factory workers, who don't know what to do when they have no instruction,
and it's never been done before.
- I am doing everyday something never done before. So are thousands,
or millions of others. It's not an orderly, step-by-step process
and we need help, the support and creativity of a group. And a
high tolerance for mess, sloppiness, mistakes, and false starts.
7up. (what happened to # 1 to 6) No one get's it right from the
beginning.
- Classroom techniques, workshops, and even remote Web based
activities may work well enough to make a difference.
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Contact Information !INDEX OF DOCUMENTS
/documents/pathos/ ONE
The
structure (MIND BODY AND SOUL) X Y AND Z -----ONE B
then /documents/pathos/ TWO
-------TWO B
and /documents/pathos/ THREE
----THREE B
AND /documents/pathos/3C
ETHOS ONE
Children of the Dust Bowl and group dynamics Powerful methods
and --- ETHOS ONE B
ETHOS TWO
and --- ETHOS 2B
and -- ETHOS THREE and
ETHOS THREE B
and ETHOS4 and
ETHOS FOUR B
LOGOS ONE
General Syntems and the ecology of rational policy (management
and leadership ) and LOGOS 1B
LOSOS TWO and
LOSOS 2B and
-- LOGOS THREE and
Logos 3B
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- Project 1
The Emotional Basis for Change
/documents/pathos/ - the whole person, feeling WHAT IS A FEELING
...
RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
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Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
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Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
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- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
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The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
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- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
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special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
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are they using the external links, the guides to the INTERNET,
the fifth dimension, WHAT IS GOING ON ?
Current Projects SYNERGY..NET
- Todays Letter.Tuesday, December 12, 1995.
- RE: Human Synergistics (International) info@humansyn.com
- What I am doing on the URL is to experiment with groups within
existing technology and explore the possibilities of future technologies.
Now people can communicate by E-mail, as we are doing. We could
join Chat groups, a newsgroup, or newsletter on synergy, some
of us have I-phone, CuSeeMe, et al. Netscape now integrates E-mail,
newsgroups, (listserv mail), and will have FTP very soon (I guess).
What about Synergy in this technology
The system itself is a product
of synergy, a lot of people doing different things but connected
to the WWW, and the process takes off like crazy ?
- Most human interaction involves non-verbal, visual and sense
perception clues. We piece together our realities using the vast
resources of body-mind experience, conscious and un-conscious
perceptions - tone of voice, body language, context, transference,
projection, syntax, and the more we know about bio-chemical and
neurological aspect of perception and information processing the
more wonderful human social perceptions become, but they are internal
and subject to vast and uncertain error.
- So, we have a human animal evolved on the basis of groups,
of group dynamics involving language and empathic symbolic projections
called synergy. Can some of this energy be done at a distance
on the tools now possible or will it happen in the near future
with better tools. Have you looked at remote work-groups and how
a "meeting", joint effort work at a distance ? Building
constructive styles, affiliative, humanistic, support groups working
together but physically apart must be very different than face
to face.
- I have developed a set of group activities designed to encourage
the Constructive styles you find in your research make for productive
groups.
The activities are designed to work through the aggressive
and passive barriers that prevent groups form "turning on".
Any teacher knows when the light is turned on, when the groups
takes off, there is excitement in the air, and synergy happens.
Can we promote that outcome ( in a statistically significant way
) in a sample of groups ? Can it be done at a distance ?
- Your methods seem to depend on the awareness of problems helps
in solving problems. Sure, but the next step are structured activities
that encourage the desired outcomes - by practice in open and
creative groups. How do you learn anything, practice, practice,
practice. How do you change perceptions, by changing the ecology,
the climate, the environment and giving people experience in the
new methods, atmosphere, in the new world order.
The new economy
require creative, innovate people.
The old school system produces
factory workers, who don't know what to do when they have no instruction,
and it's never been done before.
- I am doing everyday something never done before. So are thousands,
or millions of others. It's not an orderly, step-by-step process
and we need help, the support and creativity of a group. And a
high tolerance for mess, sloppiness, mistakes, and false starts.
7up. (what happened to # 1 to 6) No one get's it right from the
beginning.
- Classroom techniques, workshops, and even remote Web based
activities may work well enough to make a difference.
- BETA Testers wanted for the Virtual Classroom
- BETA Testers Home Page
- Biographical Information
- Personal Interests Pflaump Home page
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and get instructions
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The Web pages
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/
with limited access
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link to GVS (Global Village Schools)
GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village
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Resources and
Introduction
---LESSON PLAN
--- NEWS PAGE FIVE,
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Contact Information !INDEX OF DOCUMENTS
/documents/pathos/ ONE
The
structure (MIND BODY AND SOUL) X Y AND Z -----ONE B
then /documents/pathos/ TWO
-------TWO B
and /documents/pathos/ THREE
----THREE B
AND /documents/pathos/3C
ETHOS ONE
Children of the Dust Bowl and group dynamics Powerful methods
and --- ETHOS ONE B
ETHOS TWO
and --- ETHOS 2B
and -- ETHOS THREE and
ETHOS THREE B
and ETHOS4 and
ETHOS FOUR B
LOGOS ONE
General Syntems and the ecology of rational policy (management
and leadership ) and LOGOS 1B
LOSOS TWO and
LOSOS 2B and
-- LOGOS THREE and
Logos 3B
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RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
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and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
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- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
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- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
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NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
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Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
- Todays Letter.Tuesday, December 12, 1995.
- RE: Human Synergistics (International) info@humansyn.com
- What I am doing on the URL is to experiment with groups within
existing technology and explore the possibilities of future technologies.
Now people can communicate by E-mail, as we are doing. We could
join Chat groups, a newsgroup, or newsletter on synergy, some
of us have I-phone, CuSeeMe, et al. Netscape now integrates E-mail,
newsgroups, (listserv mail), and will have FTP very soon (I guess).
What about Synergy in this technology
The system itself is a product of synergy, a lot of people doing different things but connected to the WWW, and the process takes off like crazy ?
- Most human interaction involves non-verbal, visual and sense perception clues. We piece together our realities using the vast resources of body-mind experience, conscious and un-conscious perceptions - tone of voice, body language, context, transference, projection, syntax, and the more we know about bio-chemical and neurological aspect of perception and information processing the more wonderful human social perceptions become, but they are internal and subject to vast and uncertain error.
- So, we have a human animal evolved on the basis of groups, of group dynamics involving language and empathic symbolic projections called synergy. Can some of this energy be done at a distance on the tools now possible or will it happen in the near future with better tools. Have you looked at remote work-groups and how a "meeting", joint effort work at a distance ? Building constructive styles, affiliative, humanistic, support groups working together but physically apart must be very different than face to face.
- I have developed a set of group activities designed to encourage the Constructive styles you find in your research make for productive groups.
The activities are designed to work through the aggressive and passive barriers that prevent groups form "turning on". Any teacher knows when the light is turned on, when the groups takes off, there is excitement in the air, and synergy happens. Can we promote that outcome ( in a statistically significant way ) in a sample of groups ? Can it be done at a distance ?
- Your methods seem to depend on the awareness of problems helps in solving problems. Sure, but the next step are structured activities that encourage the desired outcomes - by practice in open and creative groups. How do you learn anything, practice, practice, practice. How do you change perceptions, by changing the ecology, the climate, the environment and giving people experience in the new methods, atmosphere, in the new world order.
The new economy require creative, innovate people.
The old school system produces factory workers, who don't know what to do when they have no instruction, and it's never been done before.
- I am doing everyday something never done before. So are thousands, or millions of others. It's not an orderly, step-by-step process and we need help, the support and creativity of a group. And a high tolerance for mess, sloppiness, mistakes, and false starts. 7up. (what happened to # 1 to 6) No one get's it right from the beginning.
- Classroom techniques, workshops, and even remote Web based activities may work well enough to make a difference.
- BETA Testers wanted for the Virtual Classroom
- BETA Testers Home Page
- Biographical Information
- Personal Interests Pflaump Home page
Direct Listing
- Site 1 You can go directly to documnets
at http://www.wiredbrain.netA>/
and get instructions
Site 2
The Web pages
can be listed at http://www.wiredbrain.net~/
/
with limited access
Site 3. Internet 101 GLOBAL VILLAGE ONE
link to GVS (Global Village Schools)
GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village
PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME
Resources and
Introduction
---LESSON PLAN
--- NEWS PAGE FIVE,
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Contact Information !INDEX OF DOCUMENTS
/documents/pathos/ ONE
The
structure (MIND BODY AND SOUL) X Y AND Z -----ONE B
then /documents/pathos/ TWO
-------TWO B
and /documents/pathos/ THREE
----THREE B
AND /documents/pathos/3C
ETHOS ONE
Children of the Dust Bowl and group dynamics Powerful methods
and --- ETHOS ONE B
ETHOS TWO
and --- ETHOS 2B
and -- ETHOS THREE and
ETHOS THREE B
and ETHOS4 and
ETHOS FOUR B
LOGOS ONE
General Syntems and the ecology of rational policy (management
and leadership ) and LOGOS 1B
LOSOS TWO and
LOSOS 2B and
-- LOGOS THREE and
Logos 3B
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- Project 1
The Emotional Basis for Change
/documents/pathos/ - the whole person, feeling WHAT IS A FEELING
...
RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
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ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
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- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
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/documents/pathos/ ONE
The
structure (MIND BODY AND SOUL) X Y AND Z -----ONE B
then /documents/pathos/ TWO
-------TWO B
and /documents/pathos/ THREE
----THREE B
AND /documents/pathos/3C
ETHOS ONE
Children of the Dust Bowl and group dynamics Powerful methods
and --- ETHOS ONE B
ETHOS TWO
and --- ETHOS 2B
and -- ETHOS THREE and
ETHOS THREE B
and ETHOS4 and
ETHOS FOUR B
LOGOS ONE
General Syntems and the ecology of rational policy (management
and leadership ) and LOGOS 1B
LOSOS TWO and
LOSOS 2B and
-- LOGOS THREE and
Logos 3B
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RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
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link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
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University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
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link to GVS (Global Village Schools)
GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village
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PFLAUM Peter's
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Introduction
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/documents/pathos/ ONE
The
structure (MIND BODY AND SOUL) X Y AND Z -----ONE B
then /documents/pathos/ TWO
-------TWO B
and /documents/pathos/ THREE
----THREE B
AND /documents/pathos/3C
ETHOS ONE
Children of the Dust Bowl and group dynamics Powerful methods
and --- ETHOS ONE B
ETHOS TWO
and --- ETHOS 2B
and -- ETHOS THREE and
ETHOS THREE B
and ETHOS4 and
ETHOS FOUR B
LOGOS ONE
General Syntems and the ecology of rational policy (management
and leadership ) and LOGOS 1B
LOSOS TWO and
LOSOS 2B and
-- LOGOS THREE and
Logos 3B
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RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
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Perspective.
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need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
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- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
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- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
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- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
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special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
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is the same structure but different books.
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Children of the Dust Bowl and group dynamics Powerful methods
and --- ETHOS ONE B
ETHOS TWO
and --- ETHOS 2B
and -- ETHOS THREE and
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and ETHOS4 and
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LOGOS ONE
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RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
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Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
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...Monday, November 20, 1995
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Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
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NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
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The
structure (MIND BODY AND SOUL) X Y AND Z -----ONE B
then /documents/pathos/ TWO
-------TWO B
and /documents/pathos/ THREE
----THREE B
AND /documents/pathos/3C
ETHOS ONE
Children of the Dust Bowl and group dynamics Powerful methods
and --- ETHOS ONE B
ETHOS TWO
and --- ETHOS 2B
and -- ETHOS THREE and
ETHOS THREE B
and ETHOS4 and
ETHOS FOUR B
LOGOS ONE
General Syntems and the ecology of rational policy (management
and leadership ) and LOGOS 1B
LOSOS TWO and
LOSOS 2B and
-- LOGOS THREE and
Logos 3B
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RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
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The
structure (MIND BODY AND SOUL) X Y AND Z -----ONE B
then /documents/pathos/ TWO
-------TWO B
and /documents/pathos/ THREE
----THREE B
AND /documents/pathos/3C
ETHOS ONE
Children of the Dust Bowl and group dynamics Powerful methods
and --- ETHOS ONE B
ETHOS TWO
and --- ETHOS 2B
and -- ETHOS THREE and
ETHOS THREE B
and ETHOS4 and
ETHOS FOUR B
LOGOS ONE
General Syntems and the ecology of rational policy (management
and leadership ) and LOGOS 1B
LOSOS TWO and
LOSOS 2B and
-- LOGOS THREE and
Logos 3B
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RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
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University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
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-------TWO B
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----THREE B
AND /documents/pathos/3C
ETHOS ONE
Children of the Dust Bowl and group dynamics Powerful methods
and --- ETHOS ONE B
ETHOS TWO
and --- ETHOS 2B
and -- ETHOS THREE and
ETHOS THREE B
and ETHOS4 and
ETHOS FOUR B
LOGOS ONE
General Syntems and the ecology of rational policy (management
and leadership ) and LOGOS 1B
LOSOS TWO and
LOSOS 2B and
-- LOGOS THREE and
Logos 3B
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RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
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Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
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and --- ETHOS 2B
and -- ETHOS THREE and
ETHOS THREE B
and ETHOS4 and
ETHOS FOUR B
LOGOS ONE
General Syntems and the ecology of rational policy (management
and leadership ) and LOGOS 1B
LOSOS TWO and
LOSOS 2B and
-- LOGOS THREE and
Logos 3B
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RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
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ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
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that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
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with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
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- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
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The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
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RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
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and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
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Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
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RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
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Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
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is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
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with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
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- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
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RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
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ONE or Page TWO
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Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
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and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
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The Emotional Basis for Change
/documents/pathos/ - the whole person, feeling WHAT IS A FEELING
...
RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
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ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
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RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
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Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
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NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
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The Emotional Basis for Change
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...
RE: A.H. Maslow:
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
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ONE or Page TWO
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Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
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NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
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Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
The Emotional Basis for Change
/documents/pathos/ - the whole person, feeling WHAT IS A FEELING ...The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
"Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen,
Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
Learn by doing. I am and you can too . .LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
Back to Top
Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy
at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only
copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret
Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality (
not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity,
what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a
flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies
are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful,
this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the
Chuckchee, the Ojibwa,
The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
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link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
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and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
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Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
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The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies
were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with
high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh,
The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression
vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups
welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual
benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers)
vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
Learn by doing. I am and you can too . .LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
Back to Top
Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers) vs. at least some unselfish, altruism or (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting
vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions,
are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out
break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes
aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions
maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy
is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional
means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards
for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Project 2 Human Potential and growth (Sufi)
ETHOS - social relations GROUPS troops.
Applied social skills.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
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Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
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NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
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VISIT THE REVOLUTION
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
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ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
Learn by doing. I am and you can too . .LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
Back to Top
Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Johnson D.W., Johnson R., & Smith "Cooperative Learning"
Cooperation and Competition,
Theory and Research, Edina, MN, Interaction
Book Co. (1989)
James D. McHolland, "Human Potential Seminar" (2527
Hasting Ave, Evanston Il 60201 (312) 869+1435)
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
Learn by doing. I am and you can too . .LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
Back to Top
Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
Gregoric "An Adults Guide to Style"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter : Keirsey, David TITLE : Portraits
of temperament EDITION: 1st ed. PUBLISHED : Del Mar, Calif. :
Prometheus Nemesis Book His New Book "Please Understand ME"
is excellent - I will find reference.
"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
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is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
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Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
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"Humankind" becoming Human Myers-Briggs Types
Applied Skills Series "Creative Problem solving"
CMA Publishing, 4638 J.C. Nichols Parkway, Suite 224, Kansas City
Missouri 64112, 1979, How Creative are You? Nation's Business,
93-95, 97+101 Human Relations Training, Applied Skills Training
Series,
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
Learn by doing. I am and you can too . .LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
Back to Top
Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
"Learning from Conflict" Lois B. Hart, A Handbook
for Trainers, Addison-Wesley (1981)
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior
and Motivation B-values
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
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University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
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Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
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VISIT THE REVOLUTION
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT,
84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Listening:
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley &
Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
Learn by doing. I am and you can too . .LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
Back to Top
Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
The forgotten Skill, Burney-Allen, John Wiley & Sons (1982)
Assertiveness Training,
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction
Workbook, New Harbinger Publications, 2200 Adeline, Suite 305,
Oakland CA 94607
People Skills, Robert Bolton (Prentice-Hall) 1979
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
Learn by doing. I am and you can too . .LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
Back to Top
Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
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Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
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Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
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Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
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VISIT THE REVOLUTION
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools
Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
Learn by doing. I am and you can too . .LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
Back to Top
Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for
the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) and
The
Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
Learn by doing. I am and you can too . .LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
Back to Top
Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
The Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see
the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
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Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
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Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
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VISIT THE REVOLUTION
The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
also see the workbooks and their Logos
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore,
J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded
- students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
Learn by doing. I am and you can too . .LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
Back to Top
Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded - students learn at their own style and pace
Second: X, Y, and Z -
The factory, the Human Relations (personality)
IBM - make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - groups
and active learning what they want to learn - Guide and advise
students more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
Learn by doing. I am and you can too . .LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
Back to Top
Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information.
Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
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University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
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Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
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Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
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Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring
- sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
Learn by doing. I am and you can too . .LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
Back to Top
Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
a Z theory principle not another management system (MBO) but
a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
I think it involves "body knowledge" a focus of the
mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the
dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still
quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect
dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
Learn by doing. I am and you can too . .LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
Back to Top
Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
The still quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect dive - Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbraindocuments pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge
(ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge
( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being
in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************
Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
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University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
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Project 3 Educational and political reform
- Charter Schools .LOGOS - policy, leadership,
problem solving
General Systems
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
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NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
Back to Top
Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
In 1967 I was introduced to general systems and the educational
business at MIT/Slone and HGSE conference we organized. (also
ABT Assoc. did a original model of the Title I, for the evaluation
of the new federal programs in education designed by Keppel)
Since then I have tried to understand and teach general systems
at the Universities of Wisconsin, Cal. State Long Beach, and elsewhere.
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years,
I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency
toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine-
or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological
and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See
the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general
terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson
in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create
tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
Learn by doing. I am and you can too . .LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
Back to Top
Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
There are a few understanding that have developed over the years, I like to get your comments. In general system there is a tendency toward balance as in an ecological systems. It is not a machine- or electrical engineering problem but more like a medical or biological and environmental framework. Health is defined as balance. (See the work of Rene Dubos) Evolution has a mission- in very general terms, and the species have niches and roles. Edward O. Wilson in Sociobiology discusses these as groves or patterns that create tendencies.
Demning discusses it in terms of general systems (overall functions)
and specific systems -individual roles. In education it is the
difference between (authentic) assessment and testing.
Assessment looks a systems characteristics while testing checks
the individuals. This is the difference between the forest and
the trees. This is the difference between command and control
and leadership. A relationship with the organic function of a
general system is necessary to really understand the system before
fixing the blame. Fix the problem not the blame. Inspection really
doesn't work.
This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
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and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
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This is the central problem of teaching systems. People want
to engineer a solution before they grasp the structural and functional
and ideological relationships in open and dynamic systems.
Therefore
the use of Zen to introduce the idea of Quality, and other attention
getting devices to raise the conscience of the totality of interactions.
Everything relates to everything else. (Ted Sizer)
The whole is
more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
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and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
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VISIT THE REVOLUTION
The whole is more than its parts.
Like living systems, organizations and institutions interact
in dynamic ways with the environment. Schools exist in a natural
and social conditions that include T.V., crime, public attitudes,
the business climate, our trade relationships, political actions,
religious beliefs, etc. etc. all these impact on schools. Within
this vast complexity we can identify central themes and missions.
We must maintain focus among all the noise.
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are
the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the
organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of
the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared
illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
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Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
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GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
The quality of human interaction is the central theme. Are the relationships genuine and sincere? Are the actions of the organization based on principals tied to the organic mission of the system? Leaders relate to these themes and communally shared illusions.
Since human action depends of a level of belief, faith, trust
and hope it is always partly an illusion. It is a necessary illusion.
Therefore leaders must be in the world but not of it, understand
the illusions or myths at underline human action but also have
a meaningful relationship with reality.
Makarenko came to this conclusion; this conclusion is seen
in the wiring room at Hawthorne; Dewey clearly came to this conclusion
-- group effort , connection between thinking and doing.
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
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...Monday, November 20, 1995
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NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
Back to Top
Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
This goes back to the moral basis of human development and
potential -- creative individuals working collectively to do the
best job and constantly improve.
Goodlad was concerned about good schools that could be better
(they were not trying to improve-- Goodlad and others are frustrated
because they are trying to improve within the existing system).
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
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NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
Back to Top
Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
GO
VISIT THE REVOLUTION
We have many examples of very good schools, but we have this
bureaucratic superstructure that is a supertanker. One issue is
a moral issue -- you cannot fake it.
The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
Back to Top
Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
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The school system is not doing their best -- they are not sincere.
That is the frustration of teachers.
They know the system is not
sincere -- it is political, full of place servers, some working
the angles, the reward system is wrong -- you get rewarded for
not teaching. Are private schools more sincere that public schools?
Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality
as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you
lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas
tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects,
the come from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality
requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . ."Step
1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262).
"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
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and Florida State
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Introduction to Sociology and
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- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
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"Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who
is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming
sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including
workers and managers as well as customers.
Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION:
2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword
by C. West Churchman. Edition: 2d ed.
Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
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University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
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last week
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Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research
and management science : a general systems approach / James
L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. :McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill
series in industrial engineering and management science
Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking
/ Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975>
Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis Notes:"A
Wiley-Interscience publication. "Includes bibliographical
references and indexes.
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
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Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
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of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
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NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
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VISIT THE REVOLUTION
Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the
social and behavioral sciences <by> John W. Sutherland.,
Braziller <1973>
The International library of systems theory
and philosophy Includes bibliographical references.
Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches
to complex organizations Homewood, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973
Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral
sciences
LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
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Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
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LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
- GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO
link to second page of GVS NEWS PAGE FIVE,
HOME PAGE GVS
Global Village PONY EXPRESS
and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
- GO TO OPEN-ME Back to Page
ONE or Page TWO
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Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
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Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
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NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
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PFLAUM Peter's
home page BACK to SYNERGY
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Biographical Information
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
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Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
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last week
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University of Chicago, London School of Economics, Harvard
and Florida State
Professor at Various Colleges.. Experience
in Europe and the Caribbean
Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education
and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
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Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
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NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
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Date, Degree or Position. B.A. University of Chicago, Ed.M. Harvard
(HGSE), Ph.D. Florida State (Public Policy and Human Resources)
Back to Top may go anywhere
Personal Interests
- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV
Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college
is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit,
and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum
American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf
ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World
Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You
need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for
the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement
that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web
is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than
50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks
with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires
group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each =
96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles,
special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name.
Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government
is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where
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Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
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You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
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- Synergy Net is where YOU collaborate with the future
- Synergy Net is active groups not passive students.. GET INV Introduction to Sociology and
- American Federal Government Pflaum
- 3 Credits about $140.00. Credit given by any state college is good at any other college in Florida, In-service teacher credit, and fully transferable. You have to register by mail.
- Required Text: Applied Social Relations By Peter E. Pflaum American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group, Electronic Bookshelf ISBN 0-8281-0647-9 (Needs to be ordered) and Sociology A World Perspective.
The point system (explained in detail in workbook). You need 100 points (about one hours work = 1 point) to qualify for the "A", but the instructor has to make a judgement that the work is for good quality. (Having your work on the web is very motivating). B is more than 80 points, C is more than 50. Points are earned by
- A:) A review (not a summary) of the readings in textbooks with a strong central theme ( up to 2 pts)
- B:) An activity in the workbook (there are 15) which requires group interactions. ( up to 2 pts)
- C:) A personal http://www.wiredbrain.netdocuments JOURNAL on the theme. (2 pts)
- Getting it together bonus - outside reading - (2 pts)
- A minimum of 12 units of 15) at a possible 8 pts each = 96 A maximum of 30 pts in bonus projects - graphics, articles, special topics, films etc.
The work will on the home page under Sociology/group name. Groups are less than seven people. American Federal Government is the same structure but different books.
- SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net is where YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free.
- *******************************************************
- GET INVOLVED
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages.
Interactive Education and Training on shared Web pages. .WE will
form real groups have your own area.
You can have your own homepage and files, Explanation
of what I like about You can have your own homepage and files,
...Monday, November 20, 1995
look in here for FTP instructions
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
Learn by doing. I am and you can too . .LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
NEWS PAGE FIVE,
NEWS PAGE FIVE, this week LINK to News four
last week
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Copyright information goes here.
Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
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VISIT THE REVOLUTION
Join the fun I like groups that join the fun
and become .VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Beta Testers free.
Become one of our Beta Testers free. ...
Learn by doing. I am and you can too . .LINK TO SYNERGY THREE
NEWS PAGE FIVE,
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last week
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Last revised: Monday,12/11/95
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