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Pragmatism, Post-modernism, and Complexity Theory: The

1st Edition

Pragmatism, Post-modernism, and Complexity Theory The "Fascinating Imaginative Realm" of William E. Doll, Jr.

Edited By Donna Treuit Copyright 2012
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge
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The first collection of the key works of the major curriculum studies scholar William E. Doll, Jr., this volume provides an overview of his scholarship over his fifty-year career and documents the theoretical and practical contribution he has made to the field . The book is organized in five thematic sections: Personal Reflections; Dewey, Piaget, Bruner, Whitehead: Process And Transformation;... Read more

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: William F. Pinar


Part One: Personal Reflections

Introduction: Donna Trueit


2. A Path Stumbled Upon (2009)

3. Looking Back to the Future: A Recursive Retrospective (2008)

4. Struggles with Spirituality (2002)

5. Memory of a Mentor: John Steve Mann (2009)

Part Two: Dewey, Piaget, Bruner, Whitehead: Process and Transformation

Introduction: Donna Trueit


6. A Methodology of Experience, Part I (1972)

7. Developing Competence (1980)

8. Beyond Method (2002)

9. Crafting an Experience

10. Piagetian Thought (2010)

11. Modes of Thought (2003).

12. Keeping Knowledge Alive (2005)

13. Response to Proulx: Maturana Is Not A Constructivist – Nor is Piaget (2008)

Part Three: Modern/Post-Modern: Structures, Forms and Organization

Introduction: Donna Trueit

14. Modernism (2010)

15. Prigogine: A New Sense of Order (1986)

16. Post-Modernism’s Utopian Vision (1990)

17. Structures of the Post-Modern (2011)

Part Four: Complexity Thinking

Introduction: Donna Trueit


18. Recursions on Complexity (1998)

19. Complexity (2008)

20. Thinking Complexly (2010)

Part Five: Reflections on Teaching

Introduction: Donna Trueit

21. The Educational Need to Re-invent the Wheel (1981)

22. Complexity in the Classroom (1989)

23. Reflections on Teaching: Developing the Non-Linear (1999)

24. Classroom Management (2000)

25. "Looking Forward" (2006)

26. Da Xia Lecture (2011)


List of Contributors

Biography

William E. Doll, Jr. is Emeritus Professor – Louisiana State University, College of Education and Adjunct Professor at University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia, Canada.

 

 

"A landmark and visionary book…. Doll’s work, collected in this single volume for the first time, demonstrates both his scholarly brilliance and pedagogical wisdom."

Hongyu Wang, Oklahoma State University, USA 

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