The Gated Society

Exploring Information Age Realities for Schools

Everette W. Surgenor

• Publisher: R&L Education
• Year: 2008
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781578869336
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Educational Policy

The public education system has the capacity to slowly and quietly resist all attempts at systemic change or reform; this resistance has become even more tangible and definable over the past fifteen years as reforms to bring schools up-to-date are attempted and blocked by Industrial Age understandings driven by corporate, political, and financial needs. Surgenor identifies the intellectual, emotional, and organizational factors that keep North American education locked within the Industrial Age paradigm. Exploring the differences between the Industrial Age and Information Age paradigms, The Gated Society demonstrates how those differences would impact the practice, form, and function of education systems.

Table of contents

• The Gated Society
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter One: Learning in an Age of New Realities
• Chapter Two: The Fat Lady Has Sung
• Chapter Three: That Was Then—This Might Be Now
• Chapter Four: Five Perspectives on Education
• Chapter Five: We Are What We Were
• Chapter Six: Why Change? Why Now?
• Chapter Seven: The Lesson to Be Learned
• Chapter Eight: The Industrial Age School System versus the Information Age Learning System
• Chapter Nine: Planning to Plan—How to Create Systemic Change Consistent with Information Age Thinking
• Chapter Ten: Prior Learning—Assumptions, Perceptions, and Presumptions (Generalization One)
• Chapter Eleven: Defining the Philosophical Thrust and Structure of the Learning Organization (Generalization Two)
• Chapter Twelve: Understanding What Needs to Be Changed and Why (Generalization Two)
• Chapter Thirteen: Creating a Site-System Leadership Model (Generalization Two)
• Chapter Fourteen: A New Context for Collaboration, Leadership Teams, Learning, and Financial Management (Generalization Two)
• Chapter Fifteen: Community (Generalization Two)
• Chapter Sixteen: Technology (Generalization Two)
• Chapter Seventeen: Values and Ethics: Sustaining the Culture of Change (Generalization Two)
• Chapter Eighteen: Assessment and Evaluation (Generalization Two)
• Chapter Nineteen: A Paradigm Shift in Planning—Implementing the Knowledge-Based Planning Model (Generalization Three)
• Chapter Twenty: Creating a New Ethos
• Chapter Twenty-One: Imagine
• Twenty-Two: Enabling a Future
• Select Bibliography
• About the Author