Complexity theory and the politics of education / / edited by Deborah Osberg, Gert Biesta.

Complexity theory has become a major influence in discussions about the theory and practice of education. This book focuses on a question which so far has received relatively little attention in such discussions, which is the question of the politics of complexity. The chapters in this book engage w...

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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : Sense Publishers,, [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Deborah Osberg and Gert Biesta
  • Complexity, Education and Politics from the Inside-Out and the Outside-In / Gert Biesta and Deborah Osberg
  • Five Theses on Complexity Reduction and its Politics / Gert Biesta
  • Increasing Complexity by Reducing Complexity / Jens Rasmussen
  • The Reduction of Critique in Education / Michel Alhadeff-Jones
  • Lost Children and Anxious Adults / Noel Gough
  • Normalising Standards in Educational Complexity / Tara Fenwick
  • “Complex Global Problems, Simple Lifelong Learning Solutions.” Discuss / Richard Edwards
  • The School and Learning Apparatus / Maarten Simons and Mark Olssen
  • Assuming Equal Intelligence in School Music and Language Study / Ruth I. Gustafson
  • Complexity, Consciousness and Curriculum / Brent Davis , Dennis Sumara and Tammy Iftody
  • After a Rhetorics of Neutrality / John I’Anson
  • Thinking Complexly / Donna Trueit and William E. Doll Jr.
  • Taking Care of the Future? / Deborah Osberg
  • Contributors / Deborah Osberg and Gert Biesta.