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Teaching and learning as complex phenomena: Implications for policy and teacher professional identity (2024)
Book Chapter
Knight, B., & Harrison, N. (2024). Teaching and learning as complex phenomena: Implications for policy and teacher professional identity. In Critical Perspectives on Educational Policies and Professional Identities (87-104). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-332-920241006

Widespread support exists for the view that teaching is a complex task (Schulman, 2004), that learning is a complex, dynamic phenomenon and that classrooms are ‘complex systems’ (Hardman, 2010). Systems behaving in complex, emergent ways cannot be su... Read More about Teaching and learning as complex phenomena: Implications for policy and teacher professional identity.

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.