Learning Complexity

Woermann and Cilliers posit four mechanisms that reinforce and promote the critical attitude : provisionality , followed by transgressivity ...

Well, I intended to write a practical view of the rhizome in my last post , but I basically ended up giving my take on the place of the rhiz...

In their article Complexity and transdisciplinarity – Discontinuity, levels of Reality and the Hidden Third  (2012,  Futures 44, 711–718), ...

Next, I want to work through an article by Paul Cilliers called Knowledge, limits and boundaries (2005,  Futures , 37, 605–613). Prof. Cill...

So what do complex boundaries look like? I have to confess, I have rather vague ideas. Fortunately, some other people have done a fair amoun...

Data security is a problem for everyone, even for colleges and universities, as a recent post in The Chronicle  suggests. Paul Voosen quote...

As my own views about education continue to emerge, I understand them best within the context of the conversation about complexity—complexit...

In  my last post , I quoted Marion Brady's observations about the transdisciplinary nature of thought and learning, what he calls Theory...

So I've distinguished the Real from Reality and accepted that most of the Real is hidden, probably forever and not just from me but from...

A fourth concept that Morin discusses in The Reform of Thought  is the system, or organization. If I understand Morin correctly, then he mea...

I've been thinking of boundaries as included middles, or zones of engagement, which transcend the separation of entities into discrete u...

A second characteristic to emerge from thinking of boundaries as included middles is circular causality, or the feedback loop. In The Reform...

The included middle  of Lupasco and Nicolescu gives me a convenient handle for understanding Edgar Morin's concept of the dialogic , whi...

So  Mending Wall  does not present us with a binary choice between the discrete individualism of reductionism and classical logic on the one...

So in his poem Mending Wall , does Robert Frost really want to tear down our walls? No, he doesn't. That is too naive a reading, and Fro...

In a few weeks, I will deliver a presentation about boundaries to the Southern Humanities Conference convening this year in Savannah, GA. Th...

Like most everyone else for the past six months, I've been thinking about MOOCs (note that on Susan Bainbridge's current  Connectivi...