ABSTRACT
The integrity of a living system or a social system resides in its capacity to maintain its present. It is impossible to maintain a viable social-global present unless it is made a part of the flow of history. If education and schooling are to adapt appropriately to the twenty-first century, they will have to develop along lines which break with the earlier paradigm. The problems involved in bringing about educational change should not be underestimated, but one thing in our favour is that we already know what makes a good school. The kind of organisation which emerges has been variously described as a constellation, as a federation, as atomised, as dispersed, as a ‘membership organisation’, as a network organisation or as the ‘shamrock organisation’. The rest of the firm’s activities can be conceived of as separable, free-standing functions, the specialised operations which were once handled in branches and divisions.
