Journal article
Teaching complex time through pattern thinking and understanding
Time & society, Vol.32(3), pp.336-358
08/2023
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Abstract
To move beyond its industrial era mechanistic paradigm, western education needs to include knowledges that enable students to think with and engage an increasingly complex world. The teaching and learning of complex time is one such knowledge, and pattern thinking and understanding are useful for this undertaking. As part of their teaching practice, the author developed and implemented a patterns-based design and educational strategy called spiraltime patterning with secondary school students more than a decade ago. Recently, the approach was implemented with university students as part of a doctoral inquiry project that focused on general complexity thinking and understanding. Spiraltime patterning is designed to perturb the dominance of linear temporalities and reposition them within a multitemporal patterning of complex time. The broad aim of this work is to contribute to transformational education, by facilitating temporal coherence and wellbeing for students, through embodied understanding of time as a complex phenomenon.
Details
- Title
- Teaching complex time through pattern thinking and understanding
- Creators
- Shae L Brown - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Time & society, Vol.32(3), pp.336-358
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Identifiers
- 991013130453502368
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article