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