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Complex Systems and Complexity Thinking
2019This chapter introduces fundamental aspects of what is popularly called complexity theory, though, for reasons explained in the chapter, we prefer the term complexity thinking. The concept of complexity and its accompanying cluster of key ideas, such as reduction, nonlinear relations and emergence, is outlined and discussed.
Paul Hager, David Beckett
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Complex Questions Promote Complex Thinking
The Reading Teacher, 2016Intermediate-grade teachers often express concerns about meeting the Common Core State Standards for Reading, primarily because of the emphasis on deep understanding of complex texts. No matter how difficult the text, if teachers demand little of the reading, student meaning making is not challenged.
Sophie Degener, Jennifer Berne
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Thinking Through Complex Values
2010This chapter explores how ‘thinking through complex values’ can support the structuring of integrated decision-making by orienting it towards the elaboration of strategic goals and actions able to create new values from the plurality of knowledge and the specificity of the context.
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Religion & Theology, 2014
Reflecting on research on “religion” and “health” in Africa, one quickly confronts the challenge of what we might call “the complex real”. Adequately to understand and act upon the complex real requires multiple disciplines and interlocking theoretical constructs that transcend any particular discipline. Here the issue of transdisciplinarity arises and,
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Reflecting on research on “religion” and “health” in Africa, one quickly confronts the challenge of what we might call “the complex real”. Adequately to understand and act upon the complex real requires multiple disciplines and interlocking theoretical constructs that transcend any particular discipline. Here the issue of transdisciplinarity arises and,
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Empathy, Complex Thinking and Their Interconnections
2017The chapter aims to examine the interconnections between empathy and complex thinking. Part of the considerations presented here draw on a research study on youths' relationship with cultural diversity through the analysis of anonymous open-ended essays written by secondary school pupils. The different components of empathy, and the emotional component
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Complexity and Systems Thinking
2011Systems thinking has evolved over the millennia as people have looked for ways to articulate the features of the world around them in a coherent manner.1 Starting from the definition of a system as an integrated whole made up of interconnected parts, various formalizations of systems thinking in a way that would be of interest to managers have emerged ...
Merali, Yasmin, Allen, Peter
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Introduction: Thinking Complexity
2020The history of Humanity is a history of transformation of the ways humans have coupled with, and acted, in relation to the world (Baggini 2018), in its different dimensions. Different modes of thinking, framed by different value systems, have prompted and promoted distinct modes of action.
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Complex Network Thinking in Software Engineering
2008 International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2008The booming of Internet has brought new challenges to software engineering. In the network age, software industry has undergone a transition from manufacturing industry to the service trade, software doesnpsilat have clear hierarchy structure, specific life cycle and definite system border any longer.
Deyi Li, Yanni Han, Jun Hu
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