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Complexity Theory and Education
Contributor(s): Mason, Mark (Editor)
ISBN: 1405180420     ISBN-13: 9781405180429
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $41.56  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2008
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - General
- Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Dewey: 370.1
LCCN: 2008027427
Series: Educational Philosophy and Theory Special Issues
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.6" W x 9.6" (1.00 lbs) 256 pages
 
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A collection of scholarly essays, Complexity Theory and the Philosophy of Education provides an accessible theoretical introduction to the topic of complexity theory while considering its broader implications for educational change.
  • Explains the contributions of complexity theory to philosophy of education, curriculum, and educational research
  • Brings together new research by an international team of contributors
  • Debates issues ranging from the culture of curriculum, to the implications of work of key philosophers such as Foucault and John Dewey for educational change
  • Demonstrates how social scientists and social and education policy makers are drawing on complexity theory to answer questions such as: why is it that education decision-makers are so resistant to change; how does change in education happen; and what does it take to make these changes sustainable?
  • Considers changes in use of complexity theory; developed principally in the fields of physics, biology, chemistry, and economics, and now being applied more broadly to the social sciences and to the study of education