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GLOSSARY INQUIRY: ADAPTATION
Adaptation refers to the process of mutual change in a complex agent and its environment as a result of recurrent interactions between them.
Complex understandings of adaptation consider the interconnected web of relations in which both a complex agent and its environment are embedded—and by which they are constituted or defined. This web includes relations among organisms, inanimate physical things and cultural milieus. Adaptation is dynamic process in which learner and environment evolve together in an on-going and mutually-specifying dance.
Education is an adaptive process. Students, teachers, classroom collectives, schools and other complex agents dynamically adapt in relation to one other. Each action of the participants shifts this web of relations—and thus changes those participants.
