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Researching Classrooms: Complexity and Chaos
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Radford, Mike – British Educational Research Journal, 2006
This article presents a critical review of complexity theory in relation to educational research. The "analytical reductionist" approach is one in which the educational researcher seeks to reduce complex wholes to particular factors and to identify correlations between them and desirable outcomes. Complexity theory shows how this approach in…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Educational Research, Educational Practices, Educational Policy