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

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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; Modern/Post-Modern: Structures, Forms and Organization; Complexity Thinking; and Reflections on Teaching . The complicated intellectual trajectory through pragmatism, postmodernism and complexity theory not only testifies to Doll’s individual lifetime works but is also intimately related to the landscape of education to which he has made an important contribution. Of interest to curriculum scholars around the world, the book will hold special significance for graduate students and junior scholars who came of the age in the field Doll helped create: one crafted by postmodernism and, more recently, complexity theory. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Permissions 1 Introduction PART 1 Personal Reflections 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 Steven Mann (2009) PART 2 Dewey, Piaget, Bruner, Whitehead: Process and Transformation 6 A Methodology of Experience, Part I (1972) 7 Developing Competence (1984) 8 Beyond Methods (2002) 9 Crafting an Experience (2004) 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 3 Modern/Post-Modern: Structures, Forms, and Organization 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 4 Complexity Thinking 18 Recursions on Complexity (1998) 19 Complexity (2008) 20 Thinking Complexly (2010) PART 5 Reflections on Teaching 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: The Wisdom of John Dewey (2011) References Index