UPDATING 'MENTAL MODELS' ENTAILS PEOPLE IN LEARNINGTION. FROM SITUA...

4. Updating 'mental models' entails people in learningtion. From situation to situation, individuals would moveorganisations understanding their own assumptionsreadily between the roles of learner, co-learner, coach,about their work and appreciating their colleagues'assumptions. Team learning and open systems thinkingpupil, mentor or teacher. A formalised, top-down hierar-depend upon each person understanding the mentalchy with fixed roles is inimical to this kind of learning [14]– a flexible non-defensive culture that is open to experi-models they hold themselves, and understanding andence and opportunities for learning and whose partici-appreciating those which others hold [29,30], so thatpants recognise that expertise is distributed amongst themmembers of different occupations repose increasing trust[36].in one another. A concomitant is a capacity for 'unlearn-ing' obsolete or counter-productive mental models [31].