Leadership as a System Holon

Donaldson, William

doi:10.1002/jls.21772

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“…Each of these contexts plays an important role in impacting all the elements of the system. Donaldson (2021), influenced by Kellerman (2016) noted "Leadership must have a context. The context for leadership is the system" (p. 44).…”

Section: System Thinking In a Global Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Paris Conference on Education 2023: Official Conference Proceedings

2023

PCE Official Conference Proceedings

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Education in the post-pandemic era is presented with prospects to reconfigure the mode of teaching and learning with the affordances of technology. Despite the prominence of classroom talk and its associations with students' thinking, little is known about such effects when talk is conducted in a purely asynchronous online context among students and teachers who learn English as L2. The current study explored how Hong Kong ESL learners talk and think together using a micro-blogging tool, Padlet. Twenty-five students from a HK secondary school were recruited to post their individual views on news articles before engaging in open-floor discussions about their opinions. They were then asked to write a short self-evaluation on their discussion process and evaluate their talk. The Scheme for Educational Dialogue Analysis was adopted for coding written contributions while thematic coding was adopted for oral transcriptions for analysis. Results showed that the online talk had short turn-taking and was dominated by reasoning and questioning. However, this type of online talk exposed students to a wider range of views and future learning opportunities. It also promoted the depth and breadth of their thinking and triggered internalisation of co-constructed ideas for individual production with a heightened sense of self-evaluative awareness. Based on these salient findings, the significance of learning via online talk is identified. It is also recommended that self-evaluation should be integrated in the learning process to facilitate students' interthinking.

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Section: System Thinking In a Global Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…The concept of the holon is a key component of systems thinking. It reminds residents of the system of the complex, fluid, and non-linear nature of the system and the need to maintain a holistic perspective at all times (Donaldson, 2021).…”

Section: The Holonmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Introduction to Systems Thinking for Librarians

Peters

2022

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Systems thinking moves beyond the traditional view of the world as individual parts to be analyzed and understood toward a view of the world as an interactive, interlinked network working toward a common goal. All the parts of a system are inseparable from one another, making an understanding of the entire system essential to success. The academic library is a perfect example of an interlinked, interoperable system. The writings of systems thinker Barry Oshry provide insight into proper system operation and can be helpful to individuals seeking to create healthy library organizations.

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