Racism Is the Us Education System

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Everyone has the right to an education in the U.S., to join the rank and file of the learning organizations. The system; a configuration of parts connected and joined together by a web of relationships among members acting as a whole. Not a social system, where people simply get together to do whatever comes to mind, but a stable system where people knowingly try to get organized to bring about learning. Von Bertalanffy defined general system theory as "formulation of principles that are valid for ‘systems’ in general, whatever the nature of their component elements and the relations or ‘forces’ between them” (von Bertalanffy, 1968, p37). From von Bertalanffy’s general systems theory, more contemporary ideas have grown in diversified areas, exemplified by the work and insights from individuals such as Béla H. Bánáthy, Peter Senge and the Liberating Systems Theory by Robert Flood. A trans- and inter-disciplinary domain, systems theory bridges together principles and concepts from both the hard and soft sciences through the interdisciplinary dialogue between autonomous areas of study and within systems science itself. It is understood that the educational system of the U.S. has rules to follow, a chain of command, unity of command, span of control, and channels of communication. This system has a hierarchical infrastructure based on the traditional military pyramid. As a formal organization, the department of education has a mission statement, goals, objectives, tasks, and roster of personnel and students. The contemporary work of Peter Senge provides a critique of educational systems grounded in conventional assumptions about learning where each subject is enclosed in its own domain. Interdisciplinary perspectives are critical in moving away from industrial age models of fragmented knowledge and lack of cohesive learning and where schooling is a separate
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