Mason, Mark
Complexity Theory and the Philosophy of Education
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
- Author(s)
- Mason, Mark
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Educational Philosophy and Theory Special Issues
- Page amount
- 256 pages
- Category
- Upbringing, Education
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781444307368