Complicity is an online journal focused on complexity and education. I was invited to contribute an article to their most recent edition. The article - Connecting - was an attempt to detail how the fields of learning and research need to move away from linearity to embrace less-deterministic and more systemic approaches. Reading the article now, I don't think I managed to quite achieve what I had hoped (partly due to space limitations). Leaving that aside, the journal offers several provocative articles to challenge traditional conceptions of education. Complexity and systems views will continue to grow in prominence. When you think about it, it's a bit silly to assume that learners will actually learn what we plan by writing our learning outcomes. Sometimes the only measure that they have met our targets is that our evaluations are so closely tied to the outcomes that we basically measure a thin sliver of knowledge rather than a more complex understanding formed through greater diversity.
Posted by gsiemens at August 21, 2007 9:00 PM | TrackBack