Praxising Complexity

• In Event: Roundtable Session 4

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

In this symposium, we take a critical look at our own models and metaphors to ask how might the theoretical mosaics of chaos and complexity theories help us make sense of contemporary school practices and the educative experiences of students, teachers and administrators. How might such theories serve as a theoretical backdrop for more complex understandings of contemporary constellations of systemic inequities as well as a chaotic, pedagogical praxis whose purpose is to generate fairer, more useful and interesting curricular relationships of self, knowledge and the world?

Sub Unit

• SIG-Chaos and Complexity Theories

Chair

• Laura M. Jewett, The University of Texas - Brownsville

Papers

• The Complex Conversation of Professional Development School - Sarah Smitherman Pratt, University of North Texas

• The Complex Pleasures of Curriculum Design - Laura M. Jewett, The University of Texas - Brownsville

• A Pedagogical Approach to Complex Curricula - Justin Joel Esparza

• Cognizing in the Classroom: A New Teacher’s Reconceptualization of the Curriculum Based on Systems, Complexity, and Cognition - David Barshes, The classroom system