Beyond 'mutual constitution': Looking at learning and context from the perspective of complexity theory

Rethinking Contexts for Learning and Teaching: Communities, Activites and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 44-60

  Haggis, Tamsin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84917137403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203881750     Document Type: Chapter

References (29)

1. Bloomer, M. and Hodkinson, P. (2000) 'Learning careers: continuity and change in young people's dispositions to learning', British Educational Research Journal, 26:583-98.
2. Boreham, N. and Morgan, C. (2004) 'A sociocultural analysis of organizational learning', Oxford Review of Education, 30: 307-25.
3. Briggs, A.R.J. (2007) 'The use of modelling for theory building in qualitative analysis', British Educational Research Journal, 33: 589-603.
4. Byrne, D (1998) Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences. London: Routledge.
5. Byrne, D.(2005a) 'Complexity, configurations and cases', Theory, Culture and Society, 22: 95-111.
6. Byrne, D.(2005b) 'Focusing on the case in quantitative and qualitative research', ESRC Research Methods Programme,Workshop 4, The Case Study. January 12-13, 2005 (oral communication).
7. Cilliers, P. (1998) Complexity and Postmodernism. London: Routledge.
8. Daniels, H. (2001) Vygotsky and Pedagogy. London: Routledge.
9. Davis, B. and Sumara, D. (2006) Complexity and Education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
10. Davis, B, Sumara, D. and Luce-Kapler, R. (2000) Engaging Minds. Mahwah, NJ:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
11. Edwards, A. (2001) 'Researching pedagogy: a sociocultural agenda', Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 9: 161-86.
12. Edwards, R. and Miller, K. (2007) 'Putting the context into learning', Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 15: 263-74.
13. Engeström, Y. (1987) Learning by Expanding: An Activity-theoretical Approach to Developmental Research. Helskinki: Orienta-Konsultit.
14. Gare, A. (2000) 'Systems theory and complexity', Democracy & Nature, 6: 327-39.
15. Gee, J.P. (2000) 'The new literacy studies: from "socially situated" to the work of the social', in D. Barton, M. Hamilton and R. Ivanic (eds) Situated Literacies. London:Routledge.
16. Goldstein, J. (2005) 'Impetus without teleology: The self-transcending construction of emergence', paper presented at the Complexity, Science and Society Conference, Liverpool, September.
17. Greenhalgh, T. and Hurwitz, B. (1998) Narrative Based Medicine. London: BMJ Books.
18. Griffiths, F., Anto, N., Chow, E., Manazar, U., Van Royen, P. and Bastiaens, H. (2007) 'Understanding the diversity and dynamics of living with diabetes; A feasibility study focusing on the case', Chronic Illness, 3: 29-45.
19. Haggis, T. (2006) 'Problems and paradoxes in "fine-grained qualitative research": an exploration of "context" from the perspective of complexity and dynamic systems theory', paper presented at Higher Education Close UP Conference, Lancaster, July.
20. Haggis, T. (2007) 'Conceptualizing the case in adult and higher education research:A dynamic systems view', in J. Bogg and R. Geyer (eds) Complexity, Science and Society. Oxford: Radcliff.
21. Haggis, T. (2008) ' "Knowledge must be contextual": Exploring some possible implications of complexity and dynamic systems theories for educational research', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 40: 159-76.
22. Johnson, S. (2001) Emergence. London: Penguin.
23. Lave, J. and Wenger, E. (1991) Situated Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
24. Law, J. (2004) After Method. London: Routledge.
25. Marsden, E. (2007) 'Can educational experiments both test a theory and inform practice?' British Educational Research Journal, 33: 565-88.
26. Nespor, J. (1994) Knowledge in Motion: Space, Time and Curriculum in Undergraduate Physics and Management. London: Falmer.
27. Rosen, R. (2000) Essays on Life Itself. New York: Columbia University Press.
28. Thomas, G. (2002) 'Theory's spell - on qualitative inquiry and educational research', British Educational Research Journal, 28: 419-35.
29. Valsiner, J. (1998) The Guided Mind: A Sociogenetic approach to personality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.