Chaos, Complexity, Curriculum, And Culture: A

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

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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Chaos, Complexity, Curriculum, And Culture: A Conversation

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