Documents tagged with complexity

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An Atom is Known by the Company it Keeps: Content, Representation and Pedagogy Within the Epistemic

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY An Atom is Known by the Company it Keeps: Content, Representation and Pedagogy Within the Epistemic Revolution of the Complexity Sciences A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE ...
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June Holley, Network Weaving 02-21-09 Interview

June Holley, Network Weaving Networks: Weaving People, Ideas and Projects June Holley, Network Weaver, shares an overview of Network Weaving for leaders in community, industry and organizations. Ju...
  • betseymerkel published this 12 / 13 / 2009
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Imagining a self-organized classroom - Inna Semetsky

This paper uses complexity theory as a means towards clarifying some of Gilles Deleuze’s conceptualisations in communication and the philosophy of language. His neologisms and post-structuralist tr...
  • gfbertini published this 11 / 25 / 2009
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School Architecture and Complexity - Rena Upitis

Recent studies document the importance of well-designed facilities on the academic performance of students in language and mathematics, but there is very little research on how space dictates what ...
  • gfbertini published this 11 / 25 / 2009
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THE SANCTITY OF LIFE

This is a study of controversy over abortion, and about the salvation of the infants involved.
  • glennpease published this 11 / 24 / 2009
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Theorizing Learning through Complexity - an educational critique

I conclude, therefore, that Ton Jörg has provided us with a fascinating set of insights into the dynamics of peer‐to‐peer interaction and its outcomes and into the potential significance of theoriz...
  • gfbertini published this 11 / 22 / 2009
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Thinking in Complexity about Learning and Education - a programmatic view

In this contribution the focus is on sketching a programmatic view of thinking in complexity about learning and development. This kind of thinking goes beyond linear thinking. The new thinking in c...
  • gfbertini published this 11 / 22 / 2009
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Complexity - an Appropriate Framework for Development?

In concluding this paper, it is essential to re-emphasize that recent innovations in the study and practice of development strongly connote a shift of viewpoint, and the transformation suggests, un...
  • gfbertini published this 11 / 12 / 2009
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Implications of adopting a Complexity Framework for Development

Current development efforts are founded on an implicit belief that benefits from economic development will trickle down to uplift the fortunes of most members of the population. A view of developme...
  • gfbertini published this 11 / 12 / 2009
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Failure of Complex Systems

18 truths: The long fail of complexity Posted by Michael Krigsman @ 5:55 am 11/5/09 Enterprise systems are inherently complex, often involving many business processes, people, and organizations ac...
  • mhorvat2 published this 11 / 06 / 2009
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Instruments to work with Social Systems in Regional Development

This paper is the English Summary of the report “Systemic Instruments for Regional Development” written by Leo BAUMFELD, Richard HUMMELBRUNNER and Robert LUKESCH (May 2002). This report presents th...
  • gfbertini published this 11 / 05 / 2009
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The Viable System Model as a Framework for Understanding Organizations

The Viable System Model (VSM) is not a new idea. Created by Stafford Beer over twenty years ago, it has been used extensively as a conceptual tool for understanding organizations, redesigning them ...
  • gfbertini published this 11 / 05 / 2009
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Self-organization - The Viable System Model

In this brief we explore how organisation can release the potentials of people, enabling them to handle autonomously their problems, thus providing enterprises with the flexibility they need to sur...
  • gfbertini published this 11 / 05 / 2009
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CHRISTMAS COMPLEXITY

The Christmas story is filled with the problems and complexities of life.
  • glennpease published this 11 / 05 / 2009
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Stochastic Resonance (SR) can drive physiological processes

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  • balicea published this 10 / 26 / 2009
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JESUS TEACHES US

Here are 20 messages on the greatest sermon in history, the Sermon on the Mount.
  • glennpease published this 10 / 25 / 2009
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Rationality & Trascendence

Considerations on the limits of rationality
  • pierluigi41 published this 10 / 20 / 2009
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Public Sector IT - The CSA Case

An analysis of the problems faced by the UK Child Support Agency, written in December 2004 by Richard Veryard and Philip Boxer.
  • RichardVeryard published this 10 / 13 / 2009
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Algorithmic Randomness and Complexity - Rod Downey & Denis R. Hirschfeldt

Algorithmic Randomness and Complexity Rod Downey Denis R. Hirschfeldt
  • Feflos published this 09 / 30 / 2009
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Randomness by Design - William H. Dembski

William H. Dembski "Randomness by Design"
  • Feflos published this 09 / 30 / 2009
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