ichael Murray delivered an
earlier version of this paper to
the Society for Management in
Education in Ireland held at Trinity
College Dublin in April 1992. He
argues that in a world in which the
only constant is change schools must
strive to become learning organisations.
He reports on a project which used a
curriculum development approach to
enable schools to gain a mastery of the
disciplines involved in becoming
learning organisations and achieving
whole school improvement.
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