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Classroom as complex adaptive system and the emergence of learning (2021)
Book Chapter
Knight, B. (2021). Classroom as complex adaptive system and the emergence of learning. In Pedagogy - Challenges, Recent Advances, New Perspectives, and Applications. London: InTech. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.101699

Complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory is offering new perspectives on the nature of learning in school classrooms. In CAS such as social networks, city traffic systems and insect colonies, innovation, and change are occasioned through non-linear, bot... Read More about Classroom as complex adaptive system and the emergence of learning.

Difference as an essential teacher in a Them-Us international context: Pre-service teachers’ reflections on a university township teaching project (2021)
Journal Article
Carter, J., Knight, B., & Vickers-Hulse, K. (2023). Difference as an essential teacher in a Them-Us international context: Pre-service teachers’ reflections on a university township teaching project. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 31(3), 459-476. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2021.1923559

This article explores data from a group of British pre-service teachers (PST) following a teaching programme in South Africa. Their reflections are analysed in relation to assertions that such intercultural programmes do little to change hegemonic be... Read More about Difference as an essential teacher in a Them-Us international context: Pre-service teachers’ reflections on a university township teaching project.