UPC: 9781990040207 | Teaching for Complex Systems Thinking (Paperback)

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What do a short car trip a pandemic the wood-wide fungal web a challenging learning experience a storm transport logistics and the language(s) we speak have in common? All of them are systems or multiple sets of systems within systems. What happens in any set of circumstances will depend on a mix of initial conditions complexity dynamics and the odd wild card (e.g. a chance event). While it is possible to model and predict what might or perhaps should happen it is impossible to be certain. It depends thinking needs to be applied. Future-focused literature identifies complex systems thinking as an essential capability for citizenship and this book sets out to show teachers how they might foster it-for themselves as well as for their students. There are implications for pedagogy curriculum and assessment. Multiple examples show what changes might look like for students of different ages and in different subject contexts. This is a book of several layers: It is both practical and philosophical. There is explicit discussion of parallels between complexity science and indigenous knowledge systems (specifically mātauranga Māori in the New Zealand context). The many examples are designed to appeal to general readers with an interest in the complex challenges facing contemporary societies as well as to teachers at all levels of the education system.