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The Emergence of Complexity: Rethinking Education as a Social Science

The Emergence of Complexity: Rethinking Education as a Social Science

Hager, Paul
Beckett, David

Hardcover

Series: Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Education

ISBN10: 3030318370
ISBN13: 9783030318376
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 22 2019
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book centres on a broadened view of complexity that will enrich engagement with complexity in the social sciences. The key idea is to employ complexity theory to develop a holistic account of practice, agency and expertise. In doing so, the book acknowledges and builds upon the relational character of reductive accounts. It draws upon recent theoretical work on complexity, emergence and relationality to develop a novel account of practice, agency and expertise in and for workplaces. Biological, psychological and social aspects of these are integrated. This novel account overcomes problems in current views of practice, agency and expertise, which suffer from reductive, or fragmented, analyses, based upon individuals, groups, or networks. In retrieving the experiential richness of human activity - often esteemed as the basis of generative and creative life - this book shows how complexity both emerges from, and is, a non-reductive feature of, human experience, especially in daily work.

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