This book capitalizes on the developments in dynamical systems and education by presenting some of the most recent advances in this area in seventeen non-overlapping chapters. The first half of the book discusses the conceptual framework of complex dynamical systems and its applicability to educational processes. The second half presents a set of empirical studies that
that illustrate the use of various research methodologies to investigate complex dynamical processes in education, and help the reader appreciate what we learn about dynamical processes in education from using these approaches.
Introduction to Education as a ComplexDynamical System .- Complexity of School Environments and Educational Contexts.- A BatesonianPerspective on Qualitative Research and Complex Human Systems.- Emergence Self-Transcending and Education.- Opening the Wondrous World of the Possible for Education.- Towards the teaching ofmotor skills as a system of growing complexity.- The Fractal Dynamics ofEarly Childhood Play Development and Nonlinear Teaching and Learning.- Ergodicityand Merits of the Single Case.- Catastrophe Theory:Methodology, Epistemology and Applications in Learning Science.- Evaluating Complex Educational Systems withQuadratic Assignment Processes and Exponential Random Graph Model Methods.- Looking at EducationalInterventions Surplus Value of aComplex Dynamic Systems Approach to Study the Effectiveness of a Science andTechnology Educational Intervention.- Analyzing teacher-student interactions withState Space Grids.- Nonlinear Dynamical Interaction Patterns inCollaborative Groups: Discourse Analysis with Orbital
Decomposition.- Investigating the Long Memory Process in DailyHigh School Attendance Data.- Educational Systems andthe Intergenerational Trlc¶
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