Author/Authors :
TÖREMEN, Fatih Zirve Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi, Turkey , PEKİNCE, Dilek Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi, Turkey
Abstract :
Organizations, in which organizational learning and change feed one another mutually, more than individual knowledge is required to provide development and adaptation. In the organizations in which each member sees itself as a learning source, groups are formed as interaction and experiences are supported. These groups that give the opportunity to members to do more than they could do by their own, gain team identity with their action based positive character. Team learning stands on synthesis point of individual and organizational learning and builded upon adjustment and enhancement of teamcapacity to reach the points members really desire. Learning teams, which continuously improve the ir capacities, learn and able to renew themselves, are reflecting, sharing, innovative and coordinated dynamic structures. Basic catalysts making these structures successful are especially a healthy learning climate, team members’ readiness to learn and the quality of communication and experiences among members. This study aims to examine the dynamic structures and learning processes of learning teams that are accepted as basic learning units of learning organizations. To this end, facilitator and obstructive components effect to team learning success; the qualities transform groups to teams and team learning processes are analyzed and some recommendations about effective usage of learning teams in educational organizations are made.
