Transforming the school into a learning organization

Abstract

The need for schools to become learning organizations arises from the fact that the lack of confidence in
the environment has increased with the increase of the complexity and the speed of environmental
changes. As a result, organizations are of more need to extensive knowledge and awareness of
environmental factors so that they can self-adapt to environmental changes. Therefore, schools and
educational institutions should be amenable to learning organizations approaches. Since the role of
education is very important in the development and the progress of the society, raising the awareness of
the managers and other related elements to changes and developments in various fields should be taken
into consideration more seriously. This cannot be achieved except through teaching and learning that in
turn will be facilitated through the emergence of a phenomenon known as learning organizations.
“Schools that learn” are similar to a learning community, where organizational learning is promoted, the
test of experiences is emphasized, self-reflection in opinion and behavior is promoted, the possibility of
creativity, innovation, and critical thinking is expanded, effective guiding ideas are raised, human beings
are motivated to change and organize social changes through planning and strategic thinking and
overcome the uncertainty and fear of knowing. Along with the presentation of a definition of a learning
organization and the principles and rules which govern it, the process of transforming the schools into a
learning organization through using other researches have been discussed in the present study.