Innovative Methods to Study School System Dynamics
Date
2016-05
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University of Calgary
Abstract
The transformations currently underway in many school systems point towards
teachers becoming actively engaged in research, as well as finding ways to bring
new educational research knowledge into school classrooms. In this paper, we
discuss two methodological approaches that have strengthened our own research
of schools systems: Social Network Analysis and the Social World Arenas
framework. We suggest that these analytical approaches are useful tools for
studying complex adaptive systems in education and provide the means to improve
teachers’ scholarship of teaching and learning.
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Keywords
complex adaptive systems, classroom research, social worlds and arenas, social network analysis
Citation
Alonso-Yanez, G., Brown, B., Friesen, S., & Jacobsen, M. (2016, May). Innovative Methods to Study School System Dynamics. In M. Takeuchi, A.P. Preciado Babb, & J. Lock. IDEAS 2016: Designing for Innovation Selected Proceedings. Paper presented at IDEAS 2016: Designing for Innovation, Calgary, Canada (pg. 12-21). Calgary, Canada: Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary.