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GLOSSARY INQUIRY: EVOLUTION
Evolution is understood in terms of the “mutual interaction of changing things” (Dewey) whereby organisms and their environments specify one another in an ever-emerging choreography of life.
Complexity science has been profoundly influenced by Darwinian notions of evolution and the intellectual discourses inspired by it. They constitute a fundamental challenge to core modernist conceptions of knowledge and truth as something fixed, eternal or transcendent that is “discovered”. Complexity science places the knower in a participatory, or ecological, relationship with the known: truth and knowledge continually emerge from recursive, mutually adaptive actions and interactions of organisms and things in their changing worlds.
Cultures, schools, bodies of knowledge (e.g. mathematics, literature, science) and other phenomena of interest to educators can be best characterized as evolving forms, rather than accumulations of static, foundational “truths”.
