Complexity Theory and its Relationship to Educational Change
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2011
- Professor Mark Mason (Hong Kong Institute of Education, Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Education Studies) takes a look at how to initiate and sustain change, in education systems, through the lens of complexity theory.
The goal, he says, is to intervene at every possible level, and from every possible angle... ie. to come at the problem from as many perspectives as possible.
Mark uses metaphors like apartheid, consciousness, the butterfly effect, QWERTY keyboards, and the victory of VHS over Betamax, to illustrate that the current situation concerning education reform, behaves similarly.
This recording was made at the conference entitled, "Optimizing Talent: Closing Educational and Social Mobility Gaps Worldwide" at the Salzburg Global Seminar (Dec. 2011) which was made possible by generous partners, such as ETS, DeVry, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Ford Foundation China, The Freeman Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Nippon Foundation, and The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.
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