Mr. Didau, In your ‘The dangers of hierarchy: a recommendation for improving Ofsted inspections’, you use the model of airline crew to correctly explain the dangers of using a hierarchal model when not in hierarchal mode, (or, more accurately, within a hierarchal node). Airline crews must be operating as at least level-3 cognitive entities; that is, they must be operating at a level capable of understanding that this is not an ‘I make the rules’ situation, but a ‘we share responsibility’ one; concurrent consideration of past, present, and future, for example. At this, the productive – or professional – level, the Crew Resource Management training was designed to re-train flight crew to the correct effective level of operation; likewise, with health-care professionals. Understand that I am not suggesting that there is anything inherently wrong with your listed recommendations for improving inspection; I merely question if you are stopping short of advancing the training to a four-dimensional model due to (unstated) reasons. There are many reasons, all of which are good, right, and proper, why flight crew is expected to ‘cap’ the scale of cognitive processing to the three dimensional; these reasons do not immediately suggest themselves to me in conjunction with education. It would seem to me, based on the circumstances as they obtain, that inspections should be based on a broader model since, as you point out, “[m]istakes in aviation are potentially catastrophic; when we get things wrong in teaching, no one dies”. The reasoning to ‘cap’ scale seems non- existent, as we have the scope – ‘leeway’ – to make longer reaction-loop decisions not practical in either aviation or healthcare. If, however, you have reasoning that was not included in your weblog due to time or style constraints, that is an entirely different matter; my post (via a medium poorly suited for level-4 discussion; Twitter is social media, and social activity is a second-level form of expression) was simply an attempt to determine if there were such unstated considerations. I hope this better explains the thrust of my Tweets, as well as the motivation behind them. Cordially, Craig Gosse
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