Disrupting Class is an unsettling title for a book about the schooling process. The title conveys multiple meanings. The principal message is that disruption can usefully frame why schools have struggled to improve and how to solve these problems. Welcome to another episode in our series to celebrate the life work and theories of Clayton Christensen; today’s episode Is on his 2008 book, Disrupting Class. We welcome the co-author of “Disrupting Class, How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns: Michael B Horn
Video of Clay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbAGRSPw8ZI
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:03:02 Clayton Christensen Relationship
00:05:53 The Why of Disrupting Class
00:08:14 What Does The Theory Have to Say?
00:10:37 Intrinsic v Extrinsic Motivation and Jobs Theory
00:14:47 Interdependence and Modularity
00:22:15 Organisational Design and Authority
00:28:40 Train people how to think not what to think
00:29:37 Model of Disruptive Innovation
00:32:42 Non-Consumption Contexts
00:37:42 Resistance from the Status Quo
00:41:02 Cramming
00:46:06 RCA, Vacuum Tubes, Sony and Transistors
00:49:09 Incubation Outside the Core
00:53:43 Value Network and Ecosystem
00:56:28 The Role of Regulation
01:02:13 Jobs To Be Done Theory
01:06:12 Democratising the theories
01:10:10 Final Thoughts on Disrupting Education
01:10:10 Final Thoughts on Clayton Christensen
Find Michael here: https://michaelbhorn.com