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Information Dynamics and Learning in Complex Adaptive Systems: Toward a Transdisciplinary Framework

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops a framework for understanding learning and adaptation in complex adaptive systems. Drawing from neuroscience, systems theory, information theory and quantum field theory, it examines how information processing, plasticity and systemic coherence emerge from distributed, nonlinear and feedback‐driven interactions. It argues
Anderson de Souza Sant'Anna
wiley   +1 more source

Aproximações sobre a transdisciplinaridade: algumas linhas históricas, fundamentos e princípios aplicados ao trabalho de equipe Approaching transdisciplinarity: some historical lines, foundations and applied principles to team work

open access: yesPsicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2003
O objetivo deste artigo é o de apresentar algumas aproximações conceituais e práticas sobre o tema da transdisciplinaridade. Em um primeiro momento, as aproximações realizadas serão alternadas pela exposição teórica dos temas relacionados à ...
Isac Nikos Iribarry
doaj   +1 more source

Comments on ‘The future of transdisciplinarity: How do we relearn to be human in new ways?’

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Science, 2022
This Commentary is a response on the Structured Conversation 'The future of transdisciplinarity: How do we relearn to be human in new ways?'.
Martin Visbeck
doaj   +1 more source

Editorial: Research as practice: on critical methodologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Isabelle Stengers, perhaps unwittingly, perhaps knowingly, echoes a theme of the work of American philosopher Stanley Cavell (1995, p. 136) when she invites in the first edition of the journal Subjectivity, her readers to join her in slowing down, in ...
Jefferson, Andrew M.   +1 more
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Seeing Heritage Management through Systems Science

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Heritage is influenced by a range of multifaceted factors, such as global issues, power dynamics, entangled legal frameworks and multilayered needs. The interplay of these elements creates a challenging environment for heritage managers, who must navigate a web of stakeholders with diverse interests and values. This paper suggests that systems
Omid Shakerian   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scaling from microsite to landscape to resolve litter decomposition dynamics in globally extensive drylands

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Decomposition is the transformation of dead organic matter into its inorganic constituents. In most biomes, decomposition rates can be accurately predicted with simple mathematical models, but these models have long under‐predicted decomposition in globally extensive ...
Heather L. Throop   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Motivation in a language MOOC: issues for course designers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Whilst several existing studies on foreign language learning have explored motivation in more traditional settings (Dörnyei, 2003), this paper presents one of the first studies on the motivation of participants in a MOOC.
Beaven, Tita   +2 more
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Beyond Judgment and Approval: Establishing Process‐Oriented Ethics in Geography

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract In this paper, we argue for establishing process‐oriented ethics in geography (POEG) that moves beyond a singular, formal judgment and approval at the outset of a research project. Instead, we propose a process‐oriented ethics approach that engages with ethical questions continuously throughout the research process.
Jeannine Wintzer, Susan Thieme
wiley   +1 more source

It’s time to call transdisciplinarity’s bluff

open access: yesGlobal Social Challenges Journal
Transdisciplinarity occupies an increasingly prominent space in contemporary academic discourse, often signalled as a pathway to better science. Yet beneath its institutional endorsement and expanding literature lies a persistent conceptual ambiguity and
Hussein Zeidan
doaj   +1 more source

Helping Business Schools Engage with Real Problems: The Contribution of Critical Realism and Systems Thinking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The world faces major problems, not least climate change and the financial crisis, and business schools have been criticised for their failure to help address these issues and, in the case of the financial meltdown, for being causally implicated in it ...
AACSB.   +205 more
core   +1 more source

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