NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

Learn more about the history of ERIC here. PDF icon

Back to results
ERIC Number: EJ603808
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0013-1962
The New Sciences and Systemic Change in Education.
Carr-Chellman, Alison A.
Educational Technology, v40 n1 p28-37 Jan-Feb 2000
Discusses the current situation in educational systems based on a consideration of scientific concepts including chaos theory, complexity, and dynamical social systems. Highlights include systemic change in education; perturbation; self-organization; dissipation of rigid structures; sensitivity to initial conditions; entropy; bifurcations; and attractors and phase/space diagramming. (Contains 62 references.) (LRW)
Descriptors: Chaos Theory, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Scientific Concepts, Social Systems, Systems Approach
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Complexity Theory; Dissipative Structures Theory; Perturbation (Perception); Systemic Change