Abstract

CARVAJAL, Beatriz Carolina  and  MELGAREJO, Indira. El sistema nacional de orquestas juveniles e infantiles de Venezuela: La escuela que aprende. Estud. - Cent. Estud. Av., Univ. Nac. Córdoba [online]. 2009, n.21, pp.39-52. ISSN 1852-1568.

This paper discusses how the organizational culture has been adapted within the Venezuelan System of orchestras of juveniles and teenagers, by starting from the systematic concept of organizational learning, and with the application of the basic premises of: to learn while playing and to learn while dealing with everyday challenges. The basic idea is that learning about, and learning within the organization prompts the systemic structure of the orchestras, based on the concept that the school -metaphorically- is going to school when the whole system progresses. The methodology of this research project was based on: a) Observation, participation and coexistence (one of the authors has been an active member of the system during twelve years) and, b) The interpretation of a series of interviews that were held with key members of the System. The authors present the following concluding remarks: a) To acknowledge that the creation of the Venezuelan System of Orchestras of Juveniles and  Teenagers has demonstrated that a divergent way of doing has been effective, while the structural organizations have been moving through uncertainty, chaos and order. b) The Venezuelan System of Orchestras of Juveniles and Teenagers has conformed itself as an opened organization to the learning process, c) The result of a learning process that stems from an intelligent organization's praxis is the highest achievement of this system of Orchestras: its members learn while they struggle and play; meanwhile the school re-invents itself everyday

Keywords : Organizational culture; SNOJIV; Smart organization; Learn playing.