At first sight, Ortfried Schäffter’s thesis
looks trivial: a »pedagogical« organisation
is an organisation that concentrates
on focussing the interplay of
all its energies on the success of its
specific – namely, pedagogical – work.
Examined more carefully, however,
this means that a pedagogical organisation
is one that furthers learning.
Its success cannot be measured in
terms of numbers of charges taken
care of, duration of care, or hours
spent in caregiving or counselling, nor
in terms of turnover. Its very structure
must ensure that »learning« is more
than an incidental by-product. This is
what a theory of pedagogical organisations
is all about.