PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND CONFERENCE ON COMPLEXITY SCIENCE
AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Chaffey’s Locks, Ontario, Canada
2004 September 30 – October 03

Editors
Brent Davis, University of Alberta
Rebecca Luce-Kapler, Queen’s University
& Rena Upitis, Queen’s University

CONTENTS
(Note that, in every case, copyright resides with the author(s).)

Irene E. Karpiak, University of Oklahoma ... No Longer an Option: Life Paths of Continuity, Discontinuity, and Choice in the Lives of Adults
[PDF] pages 1–13

Immaculate Namukasa, University of Western Ontario ... The Presentational Role of Students’ Activity
[PDF] pages 15–31

Betsy Burris, Bennington College ... The “Reality” of the Classroom: Epistemological Errors in Teaching
[PDF] pages 33–54

Don Duggan-Haas, Colgate University ... From the Ecosphere to the Edusphere: Problems in (mis)managing ecosystems and edusystems
[PDF] pages 55–82

Khadeeja Ibrahim-Didi & Mijung Kim, University of Alberta ... Rethinking Value-Based Science Education through an Enactive Frame
[PDF] pages 83–90

Charles P. Nelson, Kean University ... The Role of Networks in Learning to Write
[PDF] pages 91–105

David F. Bower, Ohio University ... Leadership and the Self-Organizing School
[PDF] [PPT] pages 107–108

Angus McMurtry, University of Alberta ... Beyond Individual Knowing: How Learning Extends into the World
[PDF] pages 109–114

Jérôme Proulx, University of Alberta ... The Enactivist Theory of Cognition and Behaviorism: An Account of the Processes of Individual Sense-Making
[PDF English] [PDF French] pages 115–120

Ton Jörg, University of Utrecht ... Complexity Theory and the Reinvention of Reality of Education
[PDF] pages 121–146

Susan Bowsfield, University of Alberta ... Complexity in the English Language Arts Classroom:
Prompting the Collective
[PDF] pages 147–154

Jeffrey W. Bloom, Northern Arizona University ... The Application of Chaos, Complexity, and Emergent (Meta)Patterns to Research in Teacher Education
[PDF] pages 155–191

Kristopher Wells, University of Alberta ... Post Perspectives: The Critical Roots of Complexity-Informed Discourses in Education
[PDF] pages 193–205

Kristopher Wells & Andrew Breckenridge, University of Alberta ... Complexity and Education: From Theory To Practice and Back Again
[PPT]

Deborah Osberg & Gert J.J. Biesta, Open University, UK ... Complexity, Knowledge and the Incalculable: Epistemological and Pedagogical Implications of ‘Strong Emergence’
[PDF] pages 207–227

Karen Anderson, York University & Gary Woodill, Operitel Corporation ... Using Information Visualization to Teach about Complexity: Support from the Neurological Sciences
[PDF] pages 229–240

Donna Trueit, Louisiana State University ... A Pragmatist Approach to Inquiry: Recuperation of the Poetic
[PDF] pages 241–252

Renata Phelps, Southern Cross University ... The Potential of Reflection in Studying Complexity ‘In Action’
[PDF] [PPS] pages 253–266