How Do Dr. Demings Theories Apply to Education?
Copyright: 1997, Enid Hilton Brown Author: Brown, Enid Hilton Organization: Deming Study Group, Detroit, MI Subject: Psychology,Profound knowledge,Education,Deming, W. Edwards,Variation; Series: National Governor’s Conference on Quality in Education, November 8-11 1997, Dearborn, MI, Vol. 0, No. 0, November 1997, pp. 57-80 Online full text for this article is not available at this time. Abstract: The job of learning and the dignity of the individual permeate the ideas of W. Edwards Deming and their application to education. A foundation for Deming’s ideas and work is the system of profound knowledge and its four components: system appreciation; theory of variation; theory of knowledge; and psychology. From system appreciation flow the concepts of constancy of purpose, system optimization, learning as a process, and a de-emphasis on the industrial or factory model of linear thinking. The theory of variation acknowledges the uniqueness of variation and the role of outcome and process mea
