Chapter 1 Introduction to Education as a Complex Dynamical System

Chapter 2 Re-searching Methods in Educational Research: A Transdisciplinary Approach

Chapter 3 A Batesonian Perspective on Qualitative Research and Complex Human Systems

Chapter 4 Emergence, Self-Transcendence, and Education

Chapter 5 Opening the Wondrous World of the Possible for Education: A Generative Complexity Approach

Chapter 6 Towards the Teaching of Motor Skills as a System of Growing Complexity

Chapter 7 The Fractal Dynamics of Early Childhood Play Development and Nonlinear Teaching and Learning

Chapter 8 Ergodicity and the Merits of the Single Case

Chapter 9 Catastrophe Theory: Methodology, Epistemology, and Applications in Learning Science

Chapter 10 Evaluating Complex Educational Systems with Quadratic Assignment Problem and Exponential Random Graph Model Methods

Chapter 11 “Looking at” Educational Interventions: Surplus Value of a Complex Dynamic Systems Approach to Study the Effectiveness of a Science and Technology Educational Intervention

Chapter 12 Analyzing Teacher–Student Interactions with State Space Grids

Chapter 13 Nonlinear Dynamical Interaction Patterns in Collaborative Groups: Discourse Analysis with Orbital Decomposition

Chapter 14 Investigating the Long Memory Process in Daily High School Attendance Data

Chapter 15 Educational Systems and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality: A Complex Dynamical Systems Perspective

Chapter 16 The Symbolic Dynamics of Visual Attention During Learning: Exploring the Application of Orbital Decomposition

Chapter 17 A Catastrophe Model for Motivation and Emotions: Highlighting the Synergistic Role of Performance-Approach and Performance-Avoidance Goal Orientations