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Government as a Learning System

Donald Schon reflects on how governments educate themselves and their citizens in his fifth Reith lecture entitled 'Government as a Learning System'.

Co-founder and director of the Organization for Social and Technological Innovation Donald Schon delivers his Reith lectures on industrial technology and social change in his series entitled 'Change and the Industrial Society'.

In this lecture entitled 'Government as a Learning System', Donald Schon explores the structure of the American political system. He argues that the difficulty of carrying out policy change lies in deciding what is important for the state as a whole, but who decides what needs to be worked on as a country? He puts forward a law of his own creation to find the answers.

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  • Sun 13 Dec 1970 09:00

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