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Perspectives on Climate Change in Education for Sustainability: Linking Concepts and Skills for a Practical Ecological Transition

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Hard’ natural sciences have extensively been used to provide evidence that climate change is happening and climate action is needed. If the contribution of our economic activities to disturbing our climate systems is now largely accepted, the way in which we design and operationalise ‘climate action’—how we transition to more sustainable ...
Sandrine Simon
wiley   +1 more source

Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling Suicide‐Related Communication Dynamics: A Socio‐Cybernetic Framework for Governance

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Suicide‐related phenomena (SPS) are often approached through individual‐level risk factors or moral framings, yet their population‐level dynamics depend critically on how ‘suicide’ becomes observable, circulates and is governed across functionally differentiated systems.
Enrique Fernández Vilas, Juan R. Coca
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial Cell Research as a Field that Connects Chemical, Biological and Philosophical Questions

CHIMIA, 2016
This review article discusses the interdisciplinary nature and implications of artificial cell research. It starts from two historical theories: Gánti's chemoton model and the autopoiesis theory by Maturana and Varela.
Anna Deplazes-Zemp
doaj   +1 more source

Emergent Innovation in Systemic Programme Design: Retrospective Reflections on the Development of a Student‐Centred Masters in Systems Thinking

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Our theory of education, based on a systemic understanding of the subjective and intersubjective construction of knowledge, is that students are motivated to study what is most meaningful to them. Meaningfulness is grounded in the students' prior experiences, which are highly diverse.
Wendy J. Gregory, Gerald Midgley
wiley   +1 more source

Illuhmannating Technological Innovation Systems: Towards a Systems Perspective

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Technological Innovation Systems framework operates from an economic perspective, investigating the generation, diffusion and utilization of a specific technology within a particular institutional infrastructure. Emerging from innovation sciences, the TIS framework inherited methodological individualism as the micro‐level approach to ...
Richard Pretorius, Madis Talmar, Gunter Bombaerts, Bob Walrave   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping Systems Thinking Pedagogies in Social Science Education: A Scoping Review With an Emphasis on Sustainability

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This scoping review explores how systems thinking has been conceptualized, taught and applied within educational contexts oriented toward social‐system understanding and sustainability‐related learning objectives from 2015 to 2025, with a focus on integrating sustainability.
Roee Peretz
wiley   +1 more source

O sistema autopoiético e seus paradoxos

Sequência: Estudos Juridicos e Politicos, 2010
No presente trabalho, estuda-se a autopoiese, sua origem desde as ciências biológicas, com Maturana e Varela, até sua adaptação às ciências sociais com Niklas Luhmann, uma autopoiese social.Abstract:The aim of the present work is to study the autopoiesis
Cleide Calgaro, Agostinho Oli Koppe Pereira   +1 more
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Autopoiesis Folkeminner 22.07.11

Journal for Research in Arts and Sports Education
Artikkelen retter søkelyset på tilblivelsen av kunstprosjektet Autopoiesis Folkeminner 22.07.11, et kunstprosjekt av kunstnerduoen Kadha projects som pågikk i perioden 2020 til 2022.
Camilla Dahl
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Where the Magician Lives: An Ontological Problem in the Anthropology of Magic

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of the present study is to outline a theoretical framework in which the anthropologist can introduce a naturalistic approach, which will not be conflicted with scientific discourses, into his ethnographic work. First of all, I argue that the principles of magic can be understood as a part of social cognitive causal chains, based on
Keishi Okamoto
wiley   +1 more source