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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Visualizing Teacher Education as a Complex System: A Nested Simplex System Approach
Contributor:
Ludlow, Larry H;
Ell, Fiona;
Cochran-Smith, Marilyn;
Newton, Avery;
Trefcer, Kaitlin;
Klein, Kelsey;
Grudnoff, Lexie;
Haigh, Mavis;
Hill, Mary F.
Published:
University of Alberta Libraries, 2017
Published in:
Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 14 (2017) 1
Language:
Not determined
DOI:
10.29173/cmplct26053
ISSN:
1710-5668
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
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.