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About the Journal |
Jackson Pollock Number 8, 1949 (detail) |
ABOUT THE JOURNAL
Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original articles on all aspects of education which are informed by the idea of complexity. It is currently the only journal in existence to focus specifically on the implications of complexity (in its technical, applied, philosophical, theoretical, or narrative manifestations) for education and educational research. The journal strives to serve as a forum for both theoretical and practical contributions to this comparatively recent field of educational research and to facilitate the exchange of diverse ideas and points of view related to complexity in education.
The journal title draws its inspiration from the work of Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart who point out in The collapse of chaos: Discovering simplicity in a complex world (New York: Penguin, 1994) that complicity has the same roots as the word complexity. In their explication of the term, they contrast it to simplexity—which they define in terms of deterministic systems and sets of rules that always generate identical outcomes. Simplexity thus “merely explores the space of the possible”; “complicity enlarges it” (p. 415). In this vein, Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education is intended as a venue for the publication of articles that are oriented by the attitude that education is a matter of complicity—about enlarging the space of the possible, as opposed to the popular conviction that education is about replicating the existing possible.
The journal is currently published once a year, either in July or December. The inaugural issue of Complicity was published in December of 2004. ISSN 1710-5668
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