Category Archives: Complexity

Teaching to emerge: Toward a bottom-up pedagogy

Posted on October 18, 2018 by

This paper focuses on the conceptual model of an academic course inspired by complexity theory. In the proposed conceptual model, the aim of teaching is to form a learning organization: a knowledge community with emergent properties that cannot be reduced … Continue reading →

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Toward Systemic Educational Change: Questions from a Complex Systems Perspective

Posted on June 22, 2018 by

Researchers in Education and in Complex Systems Analysis have a unique opportunity to help strengthen the U.S. educational system and bring new tools for thinking to millions of Americans. These tools can help prepare students to meet the challenges of … Continue reading →

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Changes in the Teaching and Learning Process in a Complex Education System

Posted on June 22, 2018 by

The rapid changes and increased complexity of today’s world present new challenges and put new demands on our education system. There has been generally a growing awareness of the necessity to change and improve the preparation of students for productive … Continue reading →

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Complex Systems and Education: Cognitive, Learning, and Pedagogical Perspectives

Posted on June 22, 2018 by

To seriously consider implementing long term and conceptually deep changes in the science and mathematics curricula is an exciting prospect. Properly infused into the curriculum, the cross-disciplinary concepts and methodologies emerging from complex systems research have the potential to form … Continue reading →

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The Science & Philosophy of Complexity

Posted on June 19, 2018 by

In this episode, Haley interviews research professor and leader of the Self-Organizing Systems Lab at UNAM, Carlos Gershenson. Gershenson discusses findings from his book, Complexity: 5 Questions, which is comprised of “interview style contributions by leading figures in the field … Continue reading →

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Taking Advantage of Emergence: Productively Innovating in Complex Innovation Systems

Posted on May 13, 2018 by

Our most pressing societal problems such as enhancing health care, developing alternate energy, revitalizing cities, and advancing the economy are complex innovation systems. Leveraging the enormous potential of sciences and technologies into better resolutions for these complex challenges requires a … Continue reading →

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Emerging Autopoietic Communities – Scalability of Knowledge Transfer in Complex Systems

Posted on November 16, 2017 by

Knowledge-based communities are important but poorly understood systems for helping enterprises maintain their organizational integrity and address organizational imperatives. Based on an autopoietic theory of organization, we examine the emergence and development of knowledge-based communities at different scales up to … Continue reading →

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Time-Based Frameworks for Valuing Knowledge: Maintaining Strategic Knowledge

Posted on November 16, 2017 by

To survive and flourish in a changing and unpredictable world, organizations and people must maintain strategic power over necessary resources – often in the face of competition. Knowledge contributes to that strategic power. Without vigilance to maintain its currency and … Continue reading →

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Requisite Variety, Autopoiesis, and Self-organization

Posted on November 15, 2017 by

Ashby’s law of requisite variety states that a controller must have at least as much variety (complexity) as the controlled. Maturana and Varela proposed autopoiesis (self-production) to define living systems. Living systems also require to fulfill the law of requisite … Continue reading →

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Complexity and Educational Research — A critical reflection

Posted on October 24, 2017 by

Judgements concerning proper or appropriate educational endeavor, methods of investigation and philosophizing about education necessarily implicate perspectives, values, assumptions, and beliefs. In recent years ideas from the complexity sciences have been utilized in many domains including psychology, economics, architecture, social science, and education. This … Continue reading →

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