Vision on Learning organization and the relationship with improvement of education
Learning and development can be characterized as a process of interaction in which the construction and reconstruction of knowledge are based on former experiences. Staff in schools and as such schools themselves, derive meaning (and thus enhanced motivation) for their actions based on interaction with others and on context. For this type of learning to take place, feedback mechanisms are needed.
A learning organization stimulates and organizes continuously information exchange between its members, organizes the sharing and use of different perspectives and experiences (knowledge management) and the way joint actions are decided upon, and arranges feedback regarding results. These principles also facilitate organisational change and form the basis for all sorts of improvement and innovation to take place. At this moment experts from the field of business as wells as knowledge institutes point out that in EU many national innovation strategies lacks attention for the fundamentals needed for innovation: learning and related organizational changes in businesses as well as in education.