![]() One quote that particularly struck me, as the language he uses is very much the one we use when talking about development from a complexity perspective: His basic thesis: “schools as we know them are obsolete”. Secondly, a TED talk by Sugata Mitra about the future of schools and learning. ![]() Algoso features two posts by Robert Chambers where he sketches out how such a new paradigm could look like (direct links here and here) This is interesting as I myself and many around me are saying that a paradigm shift is needed in international development that appreciates the complexities of the environments we work in. I want to share some of my Sunday reading and listening with you.įirst a blog post by Dave Algoso on his blog “Find What Works”: in the article Kuhn, Chambers and the future of international development he talks about paradigm shifts from science to international development. Paradigm shift and the (non) future of schools This entry was posted in reading and tagged Daron Acemoglu, Douglas North, extractive institutions, inclusive institutions, institutional change, James Robinson, new institutional economics, paradigm shift, patterns, system structures, systems iceberg, vicious circle, virtuous circle on by admin. If you haven’t read my last post, I recommend you head over there and read that one first. It is largely based on Douglas North’s book ‘Understanding the Process of Economic Change’, but uses the systems iceberg as a canvas. In this post, I want to share a model that describes the dynamics of institutional change. I also highlighted that the theories of institutional economics and of complex systems actually come to very similar conclusions about how institutional structures, underpinned by basic beliefs or paradigms of how the world works, shape relatively persistent patterns of behaviour, which can be both beneficial for, or holding back development. In my last post, I wrote about why institutions matter for economic development. ![]() How institutions change – and why nations fail This entry was posted in monitoring and complexity, podcast episodes and tagged accountability, attribution, campbell's law, competition, complexity, gaming, human learning systems, innovation, intrinsic motivation, learning, measurement, outcome-based performance management, paradigm shift, payment by result, targets on by admin. This episode is packed with ideas and quite challenging thoughts! In this blog post I am bringing together a number of quotes from Toby and some comments from my side. As outcome-based performance management is still the prevalent method to manage the performance in many fields, this discussion is highly relevant and pertinent. The discussion in the podcast touches upon why outcome targets distort rather than enhance performance, why they lead to gaming becoming a rational strategy, and what the alternatives are for people who work in complex contexts. In this blog post, I’m sharing some quotes from Toby and some insights I took from the conversation. It features Dr Toby Lowe of Northumbria University and his work on why outcome-based performance management doesn’t work – and what to do instead. Last week we published the 7th episode of the Systemic Insight podcast (get it from Libsyn or Apple Podcast or you can also find it on Spotify). Why outcome-based performance management doesn’t work: podcast with Dr Toby Lowe This entry was posted in thoughts and tagged birthday, donella meadows, leverage points, Nora Bateson, paradigm shift on by admin. What does this mean? What can we still do? Continue reading → Indeed, we often don’t even see how our daily behaviours contribute to the perpetuation of the existing but failing paradigm. Yet at the same time we are so strongly entangled into this current paradigm that we feel incapable to escape from its scripts, behavioural norms and measures of success. Many of us recognise that things are unravelling we understand that our way of life is the problem. Grown up and educated in the system that is now unravelling and falling apart but tied to it an unable to change. One question I have asked myself is if we, who are in the midst of their lives now, are a lost generation. ![]() While I can’t say I am going through a midlife crisis, one obviously does reflect on what has been and what is still to come. With the world starting into 2021, I personally have also started into the 5th decade of my life.
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