Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education
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Response to Stanley: Expanding Complexity: A Meditation
No full textThis response offers a meditation on education’s understanding of complexity theories. It explores a way of relating education and complexity theories that is occasioned by a reading of Darren Stanley’s “Complex Responsive Processes: An Alternative Interpretation of Knowledge, Knowing, and Understanding.” In that article Stanley lays out the characteristics of “Complex Responsive Processes” (CRP) as a framework for understanding identity formation and, as such, as a useful analogy for educators interested in “human knowledge and knowing.” This response will suggest that what Dr. Stanley has begun to uncover is more powerful than analogy; it is, in fact, a back door to reconsidering a powerful and still living strand of thought on education in light of the burgeoning power of complex explanations of our shared world
On the Edge of Chaos: In Search of a Process
No full textʺAccepting the ways of others while figuring out how best to interfereʺ. That advice haunted this teacher turned professor turned writer as she struggled to find the best way to actualize this mandate given her by the dramatist, Dorothy Heathcote. The personal journey of the fine tension between acceptance and interference is the tale told in ʺOn the Edge of Chaos”
A Review of “A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness,” by Merlin Donald.
No full textA review of A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness, by Merlin Donald, 2001. New York: Norton, xiv + 371 pp. ISBN 0‐393‐04950‐7. $18.95 US
Story: A Butterfly? An Attractor?
No full textThe vignette concerns a study that investigated engagement in mathematical problem solving under difficult conditions. It provides an example of dynamic research design, using chaos theory as a metaphor for both designing research and examining findings, and sets the stage for a later in‐depth article about dynamic research design in education
