Difference Between Tinkering And Deep Change

Are the objectives, media and methods, and the resulting in – school performance and outputs relevant to the requirements for individual survival and contribution in the world outside of schools? The extent to which this relationship exists is an indicator of “transfer.” Successful and useful transfer, in large measure, is why we have educational experiences for learners.
Tinkering versus deep change
Our world of planning and accomplishment, as we have noted before, is one frequently based upon “polishing up” that which existed previously. This could be likened to “tinkering” with a system which might be failing. Making something more efficient when it is performing an incorrect mission or a non–mission is a waste of time,
We are not looking at possible major change. “deep change” is a term used here to indicate a type of change which transcends the more usual type of planning and doing. It looks for major needs and requirements which are not even being currently considered, let alone served, in any agency for which planning and activity are being accomplished. Deep change is a possibility when one considers questioning and challenging the basic assumptions and ground rules under which any organization currently
It is suggested here that there is a moral decision which must be made relating to needs assessment and planning. If all significant human planning and accomplishment are not related to survival and contribution in the external world, then one might be responsible, individually, for not being professionally ethical. Strong words! A moral question?
In our world, in recent years, we have seen the massive human carnage and waste because individual people did not take the personal responsibility to ask basic questions of utility and social responsibility. What do we give and what do we get as a result of not tracking each and every major planning and doing activity back to the external referent of survival and contribution of each individual after (s)he legally exits our education agencies? Are we not preparing children ( or learners ) to survive and contribute to the external world? Are we not responsible to ourselves and others to begin planning and evaluating results on this basis