Jensen, "Self-organized Criticality: Emergent Complex Behavior in Physical and Biological Systems", Cambridge University Press, New York, (1998)Keith Morrison. Educational Philosophy and the Challenge of Com- plexity Theory. In Mark Mason. Complexity Theory and the Philoso- phy of Education [M]....
We do this by considering an education development initiative run by the Barefoot College in India, and then developing an explanatory model based in complexity theory (as expounded by Edgar Morin) and in the capability approach (as developed principally by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum). We ...
Complexity Theory and the Philosophy of Education Following a brief introduction to complexity theory, this paper considers how various themes in the field relate to the philosophical study of education. I... Mark,Mason - 《Educational Philosophy & Theory》 被引量: 190发表: 2008年 Complexity Theor...
Chaos theory connected to education can be confusing, confounding, unsettling, disturbing, and messy. It can also be energetic, intriguing and fascinating. It will invite us to teach in very different ways than were developed during the era of Newtonian science and mechanistic assumptions....
This paper considers questions of continuity and change in education from the perspective of complexity theory, introducing the field to educationists who might not be familiar with it. Given a significant degree of complexity in a particular environment (or ‘dynamical system’), new properties and...
Demonstrates how social scientists and social and education policy makers are drawing on complexity theory to answer questions such as: why is it that education decision-makers are so resistant to change; how does change in education happen; and what does it take to make these changes sustainable...
Although problem-based learning (PBL) was introduced into dental education some 20 years ago, there have been relatively few well-designed studies carried out to clarify whether, how or why it works in a dental context. This paper introduces the Dynamic Systems (Complexity) theory as a new and...
Complexity theory and the enhancement of learning in higher education: The case of the University of Cape Town 来自 Taylor & Francis 喜欢 0 阅读量: 6 摘要: In the post-Apartheid era South Africas universities have faced serious questions about the quality of their student learning in the face...
EthicsBusiness EducationEconomic GrowthManagementThe complexity of crisis situations allows for corporate responses to create multiple interpretations for ... RR Ulmer,TL Sellnow - 《Journal of Business Ethics》 被引量: 223发表: 2000年 Integrative Social Contracts Theory: Thomas Donaldson & Thomas W. ...
Complexity Theory, Leadership, and the Traps of Utopia Writers in leadership and organizational studies have accrued a long history of interest in assorted complexity ideas, ranging from the pseudo-scientific and almost evangelistic (Wheatley, 1994; 1996) to the more scholarly and empirical ... T ...