PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD CONFERENCE ON COMPLEXITY SCIENCE
AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Solomon Conference Center
Loranger, Louisiana
2005 November 20-22
Editors
Brent Davis & Deborah Osberg
Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta
CONTENTS
(Note that, in every case, copyright resides with the author(s).)
GENERAL SESSION I · KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Jacques Daignault, Université Laval · Hacking the Future · pages 1-3
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GENERAL SESSION II · INVITED RESPONSES TO KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Deborah Osberg, University of Alberta · Emergent Knowledge: A Response to Jacques Daignault's "Hacking the Future" · pages 5-8
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Donna Trueit, Independent Scholar · Hacking as Access: A Response to Jacques Daignault ... or ... Renegades, Resistance, and the End of Curriculum's Big Sleep: A Response to Jacques Daignault · 9-11
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M. Jayne Fleener, Louisiana State University · Hacking the System: The Immanence of a Life in Post-Katrina Louisiana ... or ... Race, Poverty, Health, and Education Dynamics Exposed:
A Response to Jacques Daignault
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GENERAL SESSION III
Brent Davis, University of Alberta · Complexity and Education: Some Vital Simultaneities
pages 13-30
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SESSION I
Charles Nelson, Kean University · Tagging, Aggregation, and Social Relational Models pages 31-43
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SESSION II
Molly Quinn, Teachers College, Columbia University · Desperately Seeking Psyche: Re-Minding
Our Selves, Our Scieties, Our Psychologies, to Educate with Soul · pages 45-62
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Walter Gershon, University of California, Riverside · Is Curriculum Work? Questioning Work and
Play in Classrooms · pages 63-71
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Donal Gilstrap, Thematic Investigation and Dialogic: Leading Complex Group Processes through Freirean Method and Anti-Method · pages 73-86
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SESSION III
Darren Stanley, University of Windsor · On the Importance of Connectivity in Healthy Learning Organizations: A Comparative Dynamics Perspective · pages 87-94
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Steven Khan, Queen's University · Harnessing the Complexity of Children's Consumer Culture
pages 95-106
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Warren Linds, Concordia University · Drama Facilitation: Twisting and Turning in "Strange Loops "
pages 107-113
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Clydia Forehand, University of Oklahoma · Creating Our Journeys
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SESSION IV
Jennifer Thom, University of Victoria · Inside-Out: Teaching Mathematics and Reflecting on It as Distinguishing Difference · pages 115-128
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Irene Karpiak, University of Oklahoma · Footprints of Chaos (and Order)
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Elizabeth D. Burris, Independent Scholar · Structure Determinism and Psychoanalytic Theory:
A Wedding of Fractals · pages 129-142
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SESSION V
Chris Breen, University of Cape Town · Navigating a Complex Supervisory Path through the Complicated Waters of Academia · pages 161-175
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Michelle E. Jordan & Reuben R. McDaniel, Jr., University of Texas at Austin · Curriculum Content: Changing Students' Stances toward Uncertainty · pages 177-196
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David Bower, Ohio University · The Effect of External Mandates on Internal Capacity
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SESSION VI
Sam Ramaila, Padmanabhan Nair, & Leelakrishna Reddy, University of Johannesburg ·
Complexity in Student Achievement When Handicapped with Misconceptions
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Padmanabhan Nair, Leelakrishna Reddy, & Sam Ramaila, University of Johannesburg · Making Sense of the High Failure and Dropout Rates at South African Higher Education Institutions
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