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9780820467801

Chaos, Complexity, Curriculum, And Culture: A Conversation

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  • ISBN13:

    9780820467801

  • ISBN10:

    0820467804

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-06-01
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

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Summary

Although the fields of chaos and complexity are important in a number of disciplines, they have not yet been influential in education. This book remedies this dilemma by gathering essays by authors from around the world who have studied and applied chaos

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Introduction: Chaos, Complexity, Curriculum, and Culture: Setting up the Conversation
M. Jayne Fleener
1(20)
First Iteration: Historical Streams
1. The Culture of Method
William Doll
21(56)
2. Watercourses: From Poetic to Poietic
Donna Trueit
77(24)
3. Complexity: Developing a More Useful Analytic for Education
John St. Julien
101(18)
Second Iteration: Chaos and Complexity
4. Interrupting Frameworks: Interpreting Geometries of Epistemology and Curriculum
Brent Davis
119(14)
5. Paradigmatic Complexity: Emerging Ideas and Historical Views of the Complexity Sciences
Darren Stanley
133(20)
6. Chaos and Complexity Theories: Wholes and Holes in Curriculum
Sarah Smitherman
153(28)
7. Prospects for Nonlinear Education: Reflections from Lord (Robert) May
Robert Kahn
181(14)
Third Iteration: Systems and Communications
8. Bringing Corporeal Life Back In: Chiasmic Relations and Poetic Understandings
John Shotter
195(14)
9. Learning, Teaching, and Complexity
Jens Rasmussen
209(26)
10. On the Critical Paradoxes of Cupid and Curriculum
Kaustuv Roy
235(12)
11. Classroom Dynamics and Emergent Curriculum
Stacy Reeder
247(16)
Fourth Iteration: Aesthetics, Culture, and Learning
12. Patterns That Connect: A Recursive Epistemology
Sherrie Reynolds
263(14)
13. Minding Culture
Laura Jewett
277(22)
14. Chinese Aesthetics, Fractals, and the Tao of Curriculum
Hongyu Wang
299(16)
List of Contributors 315(4)
Index 319

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