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Visualizing Teacher Education as a Complex System: A Nested Simplex System Approach
- Source :
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Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education . 2017 14(1):36-79. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Our purpose is to provide an exploratory statistical representation of initial teacher education as a complex system comprised of dynamic influential elements. More precisely, we reveal what the system looks like for differently-positioned teacher education stakeholders based on our framework for gathering, statistically analyzing, and graphically representing the results of a unique exercise wherein the participants literally mapped the system as they perceived it. Through an iterative series of inter-related studies employing cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling procedures, we demonstrate how initial teacher education may be represented as a complex system comprised of interactive agents and attributes whose perceived relationships are a function of nested stakeholder-dependent simplex systems. Furthermore, we illustrate how certain propositions of complexity theory, such as boundaries, heterogeneity, multidimensionality and emergence, may be investigated and represented quantitatively.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1710-5668
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1152299
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research