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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Emergence of Complexity
    sub title: Rethinking Education as a Social Science
  name:
    name part: Hager, Paul.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Beckett, David.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 280 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book centres on a broadened view of complexity that will enrich engagement with complexity in the social sciences. The key idea is to employ complexity theory to develop a holistic account of practice, agency and expertise. In doing so, the book acknowledges and builds upon the relational character of reductive accounts. It draws upon recent theoretical work on complexity, emergence and relationality to develop a novel account of practice, agency and expertise in and for workplaces. Biological, psychological and social aspects of these are integrated. This novel account overcomes problems in current views of practice, agency and expertise, which suffer from reductive, or fragmented, analyses, based upon individuals, groups, or networks. In retrieving the experiential richness of human activity - often esteemed as the basis of generative and creative life - this book shows how complexity both emerges from, and is, a non-reductive feature of, human experience, especially in daily work. "...an ambitiously wide-ranging volume, questioning the key tenets of respected approaches ..... and offering ..... 'novel accounts', which draw on features of complexity thinking.... ...But they go further than any of us in their argument that: 'whatever reductive moves are made, they 'flow' from holistic accounts of relationality which have already affectively engaged the purposes of a co-present group.' This is the intellectual contribution that is built consistently and persuasively across the chapters." Professor Emerita Anne Edwards, Oxford University "Hager and Beckett have written a book that will challenge more commonly held notions of agency, practice, skills, and learning. Centering their argument on complexity theory or, as they prefer, complexity thinking, Hager and Beckett argue that it is through relations that we raise questions about, gather data from, and make working sense of the complexity that surrounds us. Groups then, particularly small groups, hold and imple…
  table of contents: 1. Locating our Enquiry -- 2. Agency and Expertise -- 3. Issues Concerning Practice -- 4. Issues Concerning Related Topics Such as Skills, Competence, Abilities and Capabilities -- 5. Undertandings of Learning -- 6. The Concept of the Co-Present Group -- 7. Complex Systems and Complexity Thinking -- 8. Complexity Thinking and Co-Present Groups -- 9. Fresh Approaches to Agency and Learning -- 10. Fresh Approaches to Practice, Skills, Competence and Expertise.
  note: by Paul Hager, David Beckett.
  subject:
    topic: Professional education
  subject:
    topic: Vocational education
  subject:
    topic: Lifelong learning
  subject:
    topic: Adult education
  subject:
    topic: Computational complexity
  subject:
    topic: Professional & Vocational Education
  subject:
    topic: Lifelong Learning/Adult Education
  subject:
    topic: Complexity
  classification: LC1051-1072
  classification: LC1041-1048
  classification: 370.113
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education
  identifier: 9783030318390
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31839-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 191011
    record change date: 20191021232215.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-31839-0