Chris Breen

Complexity articles

Much of my recent interest has been centred on ideas emerging from Complexity Science and Ecological writing and has been influenced by the work of Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela and Brent Davis. Together with some colleagues in the School of Education, I initiated a Masters stream dedicated to Teaching in 2000 and have offered a module called Re-searching Teaching as one of the core modules in this stream for several years. This teaching has inspired some of the articles on this page as well as a course on Complexity and Diversity which I offer on occasional courses at the Graduate School of Business. I have tried to capture some of these ideas on www.chrisbreen.net.

• Navigating a Complex Supervisory Path through the Complicated Waters of Academia. Paper presented at the 3rd Complexity Science and Educational Research conference in Louisiana, November 2005.

• Marrow-bone Thoughts and Lasting Songs? Making sense of educational change and transformation. Thinking Classroom, 6, 1, 14-20, 2005.

• Promising Practices in Teaching and Learning., Keynote address at the 13th Annual Conference of the Southern African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, January 2005, Safari Conference Centre, Windhoek, Namibia.

• Researching Teaching: Telling the hole'd truth and nothing but my truth, in A. Rogerson (ed.) Proceedings of the 3rd Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project conference. Palm Cove, Cairns, Australia, August 19-24, 2001.

• Re-Searching Teaching: Changing Paradigms To Improve Practice, in K. Clements, H. Tairab, W. Yoong (Eds.) (2000) Science, mathematics and Technical Education in the 20 th and 21 st Centuries. Universiti Brunei Darussalam: Brunei.

• Re-Searching Teaching: Moving from Gut Feeling to Disciplined Conversation, paper accepted in October 2001 for publication in South African Journal for Higher Education in 2002.

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