Complexity and education : inquiries into learning, teaching, and research
/ Brent Davis
- Mahwah : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006
- xii, 202 p.
Contents Part 1: Complexity thinking. What is "complexity"? ; What is "science"? ; The shape of complexity ; The network of complexity -- Complexity thinking, education, and educational inquiry. Descriptive complexity research : qualities of learning systems ; Descriptive complexity research : level-jumping ; Pragmatic complexity research : conditions of emergence ; Pragmatic complexity research : vital simultaneities.