Complexity and Education: Vital Simultaneities

Complexity Theory and the Philosophy of Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 46-61

  Davis, Brent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affect and effect; Complexity and education vital simultaneities; Complexity science embraced by educators and educational researchers; Deep compatibility between complexity thinking and hermeneutic inquiry; Descriptive and pragmatic insights; History of Western thought knowers and knowledge discontinuous; Knowledge producing systems knowers among the phenomena studied by those interested in systems theory; Representation and presentation; Transphenomenality, transdisciplinarity, and interdiscursivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890983121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307351.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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