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Complex Dynamic Systems View on Conceptual Change: How a Picture of Students' Intuitive Conceptions Accrue from Dynamically Robust Task Dependent Learning Outcomes. 概念变化的复杂动态系统观点:学生的直觉概念如何从动态稳健的任务依赖学习结果中产生。
Pub Date : 2017-09-02 DOI: 10.29173/CMPLCT29332
I. Koponen, Tommi Kokkonen, Maiji Nousiainen
We discuss here conceptual change and the formation of robust learning outcomes from the viewpoint of complex dynamic systems (CDS). The CDS view considers students’ conceptions as context dependent and multifaceted structures which depend on the context of their application. In the CDS view the conceptual patterns (i.e. intuitive conceptions here) may be robust in a certain situation but are not formed, at least not as robust ones, in another situation. The stability is then thought to arise dynamically in a variety of ways and not so much to mirror rigid ontological categories or static intuitive conceptions. We use computational modelling to understand the generic dynamic and emergent features of that phenomenon. The model is highly simplified and idealized, but it shows how context dependence, described here by an epistemic landscape structure, leads to the formation of context dependent robust states that can be viewed as attractors in learning, and how owing to the sharply defined nature of these states, learning appears as a progression of switches from one state to another, giving thus the appearance of conceptual change as switches from one robust state to another. Finally, we discuss the implications of the results in directing attention to the design of learning tasks and their structure, and how empirically accessible learning outcomes might be related to these underlying factors.
本文从复杂动态系统(CDS)的角度讨论了概念的变化和鲁棒学习成果的形成。CDS观点认为学生的概念是依赖于语境的、多方面的结构,这取决于他们应用的语境。在CDS的观点中,概念模式(即这里的直觉概念)在某种情况下可能是稳健的,但在另一种情况下则不会形成,至少不会形成同样稳健的模式。然后,稳定性被认为以各种方式动态地出现,而不是反映严格的本体论范畴或静态的直觉概念。我们使用计算模型来理解这种现象的一般动态和紧急特征。该模型是高度简化和理想化的,但它显示了上下文依赖(这里由认知景观结构描述)如何导致上下文依赖的鲁棒状态的形成,这些状态可以被视为学习中的吸引子,以及由于这些状态的明确定义的性质,学习如何表现为从一种状态切换到另一种状态的过程,从而呈现出从一种鲁棒状态切换到另一种状态的概念变化。最后,我们讨论了这些结果在引导人们关注学习任务的设计及其结构方面的意义,以及经验上可获得的学习结果如何与这些潜在因素相关。
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引用次数: 1
Special Issue: Proceedings of the Symposium on Complex Systems in Education 特刊:教育复杂系统研讨会论文集
Pub Date : 2017-09-02 DOI: 10.29173/CMPLCT29331
D. Stamovlasis, M. Koopmans
The present special issue is yet one more collective endeavor in the area of educational research that demonstrates how the new science of complex dynamical systems could be applied in this domain. In social sciences, while the linear methodologies are, at the moment still the main stream, the appreciation of the new paradigm has already been growing, and a considerable body of research has been published recently in regular journals, special issues on complexity and edited book volumes. In physiology, behavioral sciences, economics and life sciences, complexity theory and nonlinear dynamics have been proven highly influential advancing the discipline. Education is no longer a late follower to those developments, but a privileged area where complex dynamical system (CDS) is by now an established paradigm. Complexity theory has inspired researchers and scholars working in education and curriculum studies to approach their subject matter from a different angle, and ask different questions, focusing on the processes through which things come to be what they are. It has also changed traditional ways of thinking, in qualitative as well as quantitative research, perhaps setting the stage for a paradigm shift. The foundation of the new science has been based on empirical studies that implement concepts of CDS,
当前的特刊是教育研究领域的又一次集体努力,它展示了复杂动力系统的新科学如何应用于这一领域。在社会科学方面,虽然线性方法目前仍是主流,但对新范式的欣赏已经在增长,最近在正规期刊、复杂性特刊和编辑的书籍卷上发表了相当多的研究成果。在生理学、行为科学、经济学和生命科学中,复杂性理论和非线性动力学已被证明对学科的发展具有重要影响。教育不再是这些发展的后来者,而是一个特权领域,其中复杂动力系统(CDS)现在已成为一种既定的范式。复杂性理论激励了从事教育和课程研究的研究人员和学者从不同的角度来研究他们的主题,提出不同的问题,关注事物形成的过程。它还改变了定性和定量研究中的传统思维方式,也许为范式转变奠定了基础。这门新科学的基础是基于实施CDS概念的实证研究,
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引用次数: 0
The Dynamics of Cognitive Performance: What Has Been Learnt from Empirical Research in Science Education 认知表现的动态:科学教育实证研究的启示
Pub Date : 2017-09-02 DOI: 10.29173/CMPLCT29333
D. Stamovlasis
This paper discusses investigations in science education addressing the nonlinear dynamical hypothesis. Learning science is a suitable field for applying interdisciplinary research and predominately for testing psychological theories. It was demonstrated that in this area the paradigm of complexity and nonlinear dynamics have offered theoretical advances and better interpretations of empirical data. Research showed that besides linear modes of behavior, sudden transitions occur in cognitive performance and this has questioned basic theoretical and epistemological assumptions. The neo-Piagetian framework and motivational theories offering constructs for serving as predictors in various model are the local theories which are embraced by the CDS meta-theory. Sudden transitions are modeled by catastrophe theory (CT) the analyses of which reveal the crucial role of certain variables, namely the bifurcation factors. Beyond a critical value of the bifurcation factor, the state variable splits into two-attractor regions and becomes bimodal. The bifurcation effect induces uncertainty and unpredictability in the system, which oscillates between two states entering the regime of chaos. Then in state variables such as learning outcomes and achievement, sudden transitions from success to failure are expected. Catastrophe theory explains unexpected phenomena associated with school failure, dropouts, illicit behaviors, sudden attitude change, and creativity. Moreover CT could contribute in elucidating theoretical debates and conflicting empirical evidences.
本文讨论了针对非线性动力学假设的科学教育研究。学习科学是一个适合应用跨学科研究的领域,主要用于检验心理学理论。研究表明,在这一领域,复杂性范式和非线性动力学提供了理论进步和对经验数据的更好解释。研究表明,除了线性行为模式外,认知表现也会发生突然转变,这对基本的理论和认识论假设提出了质疑。新皮亚杰框架和动机理论为各种模型提供了作为预测因子的结构,是CDS元理论所包含的局部理论。用突变理论(CT)对突变进行了建模,并对突变进行了分析,揭示了某些变量,即分岔因素的关键作用。当分岔因子超过临界值时,状态变量分裂为两个吸引子区域,成为双峰。分岔效应引起系统的不确定性和不可预测性,系统在两种状态之间振荡,进入混沌状态。然后,在学习成果和成就等状态变量中,预期会出现从成功到失败的突然转变。突变理论解释了与学业失败、辍学、非法行为、突然的态度转变和创造力有关的意外现象。此外,CT还有助于阐明理论争论和相互矛盾的经验证据。
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引用次数: 2
Integrated School-Based Teacher Education: From Apprenticeship to a Complex Learning System 综合校本教师教育:从学徒制到复杂的学习系统
Pub Date : 2017-08-16 DOI: 10.29173/CMPLCT28838
Steve J. Collins, Hermia Ting
This article differentiates approaches to school-based teacher education. It contrasts the pervasive apprenticeship model, to a "naturally integrated" school-based teacher education program that we describe as a complex learning system. Rather than view teacher education as fragmented by separating educational theory (physically based on a university campus) and teaching practice (based in a school and resembling an apprenticeship), we favor an approach where all coursework is integrated with practice in a host school while maintaining close connections to the university. The latter model highlights learning as contextualized in school, focussed on the whole school, yet also informed by progressive educational thought. All participants in the school environment (not just university students) are at once both learners and teachers. Just as university-based aspects of teacher education suffer from a lack of practical relevance, we anticipate that any model of school-based teacher education will have to address the effects of context overwhelming theoretical learning, philosophical understandings, and generalization to other contexts. We claim that a complex learning system model is better able to mitigate these contextual effects. We propose an approach to address this issue through both "reduction" and "complexity".
本文对校本教师教育的途径进行了区分。它将普遍的学徒模式与我们称之为复杂学习系统的“自然整合”的以学校为基础的教师教育计划进行了对比。与其将教育理论(以大学校园为基础)和教学实践(以学校为基础,类似于学徒制)分开,将教师教育视为碎片化的教育,我们更倾向于将所有课程与寄宿学校的实践相结合,同时与大学保持密切联系的方法。后一种模式强调学习在学校的情境化,关注整个学校,但也受到进步教育思想的影响。学校环境中的所有参与者(不仅仅是大学生)同时是学习者和教师。正如以大学为基础的教师教育缺乏实际意义一样,我们预计,任何以学校为基础的教师教育模式都必须解决情境压倒理论学习、哲学理解和对其他情境的概括的影响。我们认为,一个复杂的学习系统模型能够更好地减轻这些环境影响。我们提出了一种通过“简化”和“复杂”来解决这个问题的方法。
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引用次数: 7
Visualizing Teacher Education as a Complex System: A Nested Simplex System Approach 可视化教师教育作为一个复杂的系统:一个嵌套的单纯形系统方法
Pub Date : 2017-08-16 DOI: 10.29173/CMPLCT26053
L. Ludlow, Fiona Ell, Marilyn Cochran-Smith, A. Newton, K. Trefcer, Kelsey Klein, L. Grudnoff, M. Haigh, M. Hill
Our purpose is to provide an exploratory statistical representation of initial teacher education as a complex system comprised of dynamic influential elements. More precisely, we reveal what the system looks like for differently-positioned teacher education stakeholders based on our framework for gathering, statistically analyzing, and graphically representing the results of a unique exercise wherein the participants literally mapped the system as they perceived it. Through an iterative series of inter-related studies employing cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling procedures, we demonstrate how initial teacher education may be represented as a complex system comprised of interactive agents and attributes whose perceived relationships are a function of nested stakeholder-dependent simplex systems. Furthermore, we illustrate how certain propositions of complexity theory, such as boundaries, heterogeneity, multidimensionality and emergence, may be investigated and represented quantitatively.
我们的目的是提供一个探索性的统计表示,初步教师教育作为一个复杂的系统,由动态的影响因素。更准确地说,我们揭示了系统对于不同位置的教师教育利益相关者是什么样子的,这是基于我们的框架来收集、统计分析和图形化地表示一个独特的练习的结果,在这个练习中,参与者按照他们的感知来绘制系统。通过采用聚类分析和多维尺度程序的一系列相互关联的迭代研究,我们展示了初始教师教育如何被表示为一个由交互代理和属性组成的复杂系统,其感知关系是嵌套的利益相关者依赖的单纯形系统的函数。此外,我们还说明了复杂性理论的某些命题,如边界、异质性、多维性和涌现,是如何被研究和定量表示的。
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引用次数: 8
Perspectives on Complexity, Its Definition and Applications in the Field 复杂性、复杂性的定义及其在领域中的应用
Pub Date : 2017-08-16 DOI: 10.29173/CMPLCT27611
M. Koopmans
There is considerable variation in the dynamical literature in how the term ‘complexity’ is used. While there have been several attempts to describe from an educational perspective what complexity encompasses, the term is frequently used without an explicit definition. To forge a shared understanding of what complexity means, the purpose of this article is to define the term for the field in a way that acknowledges the variety of use that is encountered in the education. Four perspectives on complexity are offered: 1) Information theory, 2) Cybernetics and general systems theory, 3) The use of complexity to describe scenarios of transformation and 4) Complexity as a metatheory. The implications of each of these four conceptualizations for educational research and practice are discussed.
在动力学文献中,“复杂性”一词的用法有相当大的差异。虽然有几次尝试从教育的角度来描述复杂性包括什么,但这个术语经常没有明确的定义。为了形成对复杂性含义的共同理解,本文的目的是以一种承认教育中遇到的各种用法的方式来定义该领域的术语。本文提供了关于复杂性的四种观点:1)信息论,2)控制论和一般系统理论,3)使用复杂性来描述转换场景,4)复杂性作为元理论。讨论了这四个概念对教育研究和实践的影响。
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引用次数: 16
Frontmatter
Pub Date : 2016-12-31 DOI: 10.1515/9783839435175-fm
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引用次数: 0
A complexity approach to investigating the effectiveness of an intervention for lower grade teachers on teaching science 用复杂的方法调查低年级教师科学教学干预的有效性
Pub Date : 2016-05-18 DOI: 10.29173/CMPLCT23022
A. Wetzels, Henderien W. Steenbeek, P. Geert
This article describes the effectiveness and sustainability of teacher professional development interventions from a complexity view point as well as a more ‘standard’ viewpoint. The first aim of this study is to give a theoretical overview of effective aspects of interventions regarding teachers’ professionalizing using recent literature. The second aim is to re-interpret effectiveness and effectiveness studies using a complexity approach. The third aim is to empirically illustrate a complexity approach to the effectiveness of interventions using a multiple case study We have described intervention specific aspects, teacher specific aspects, context specific aspects and implementation specific aspects and have shown in the cases that during an intervention these aspects intertwine and act as a complex dynamic system. The complexity approach to interventions has implications for future empirical research as well as for the design of interventions. In future research, results of small scale and large scale research should be combined, in order to obtain a better insight in all relevant aspects and their effect on teachers’ behavior. Research ought to concentrate on the effects that all contextual aspects have intertwiningly in order to design more effective interventions and with better implementation processes.
本文从复杂性和更“标准”的角度描述了教师专业发展干预的有效性和可持续性。本研究的第一个目的是利用最近的文献对教师专业化干预的有效方面进行理论概述。第二个目标是使用复杂性方法重新解释有效性和有效性研究。第三个目标是通过多个案例研究,从经验上说明干预措施有效性的复杂方法。我们描述了干预措施的具体方面、教师的具体方面、环境的具体方面和实施的具体方面,并在案例中表明,在干预过程中,这些方面相互交织,形成一个复杂的动态系统。干预措施的复杂性方法对未来的实证研究以及干预措施的设计都有影响。在未来的研究中,应该将小尺度研究和大尺度研究的结果结合起来,以便更好地了解各个相关方面及其对教师行为的影响。研究应集中于所有相关方面相互交织的影响,以便设计更有效的干预措施和更好的执行过程。
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引用次数: 9
Complex Adaptive Schools: Educational Leadership and School Change 复杂适应性学校:教育领导与学校变革
Pub Date : 2016-05-18 DOI: 10.29173/CMPLCT23029
Brad Kershner, P. McQuillan
This paper utilizes the theoretical framework of complexity theory to compare and contrast leadership and educational change in two urban schools. Drawing on the notion of a complex adaptive system—an interdependent network of interacting elements that learns and evolves in adapting to an ever-shifting context—our case studies seek to reveal the complexities, tensions, characteristics, and related implications for school leadership derived from using this heuristic to understand adaptive change. In particular, we highlight the need to disrupt the status quo as a precursor to adaptive change, the power generated by distributing authority through decentralized networks, the importance of relational trust, and the impact of school culture.
本文运用复杂性理论的理论框架,对两所城市学校的领导与教育变革进行了比较和对比。利用复杂适应系统的概念——一个相互作用的相互作用元素的相互依赖的网络,在适应不断变化的环境中学习和发展——我们的案例研究试图揭示使用这种启发式来理解适应性变化所产生的复杂性、紧张关系、特征和对学校领导的相关影响。我们特别强调了打破现状的必要性,这是适应性变革的先导,通过分散的网络分配权力所产生的权力,关系信任的重要性,以及学校文化的影响。
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引用次数: 42
Navigating the Turbulent Waters of School Reform Guided by Complexity Theory. 复杂性理论指导下的学校改革激流。
Pub Date : 2016-05-18 DOI: 10.29173/CMPLCT24566
D. G. White, J. Levin
The goal of this research study has been to develop, implement, and evaluate a school reform design experiment at a continuation high school with low-income, low-performing underrepresented minority students. The complexity sciences served as a theoretical framework for this design experiment. Treating an innovative college preparatory program as a nested complex adaptive system within a larger complex adaptive system, the school, we used features of complex adaptive systems (equilibrium, emergence, self-organization, and feedback loops) as a framework to design a strategy for school reform. The goal was to create an environment for change by pulling the school far from equilibrium using a strategy we call “purposeful perturbations” to disrupt the stable state of the school in a purposeful way. Over the four years of the study, several tipping points were reached, and we developed agent-based simulation models that capture important dynamic properties of the reform at these points. The study draws upon complexity theory in multiple ways that have supported improved education for low-achieving students.
本研究的目的是在一所低收入、表现不佳、代表性不足的少数民族学生的延续高中开发、实施和评估一项学校改革设计实验。复杂性科学作为这个设计实验的理论框架。我们将创新的大学预科课程视为一个更大的复杂适应系统(学校)中的嵌套复杂适应系统,并使用复杂适应系统的特征(均衡、涌现、自组织和反馈循环)作为设计学校改革战略的框架。我们的目标是创造一个改变的环境,通过使用我们称之为“有目的的扰动”的策略,以有目的的方式破坏学校的稳定状态,使学校远离平衡。在四年的研究中,达到了几个临界点,我们开发了基于代理的仿真模型,以捕捉这些点上改革的重要动态特性。这项研究从多个方面借鉴了复杂性理论,这些理论支持了对学习成绩差的学生的改进教育。
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引用次数: 11
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Complicity-An International Journal of Complexity and Education
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