Complex systems in education: Scientific and educational importance and implications for the learning sciences

TY - JOUR

T1 - Complex systems in education

T2 - Scientific and educational importance and implications for the learning sciences

AU - Jacobson, Michael J.

AU - Wilensky, Uri

N1 - Funding Information: Portions of the work reported on in this article were supported, in part, by Grant REC–9980241 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the New England Complex Systems Institute (Yaneer Bar-Yam, principal investigator; Jim Kaput and Uri Wilensky, coprincipal investigators; organizing committee: Michael J. Ja-cobson, Eric Jakobsson, Jay Lemke, and Sheldon White). The article incorporates portions of the NSF final report and working papers (Kaput et al., 2001). With due respect to the conventions of linearity in authorship lists, we regard the research reported in this article as an equal collaboration of both authors. The intellectual contributions of the scientists and researchers who participated in the working groups of the project and in follow-up meetings are gratefully acknowledged, although the responsibility for controversial issues or errors is that of the authors. The comments, suggestions, and insights of Robert L. Goldstone, Richard Lesh, and Dor Abrahamson on a previous version of this article and those of an anonymous reviewer are gratefully acknowledged.

PY - 2006

Y1 - 2006

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U2 - 10.1207/s15327809jls1501_4

DO - 10.1207/s15327809jls1501_4

M3 - Review article

AN - SCOPUS:32644453818

SN - 1050-8406

VL - 15

SP - 11

EP - 34

JO - Journal of the Learning Sciences

JF - Journal of the Learning Sciences

IS - 1

ER -