The Complex Systems See-Change in Education

One of the most exciting promises of a complex systems perspective for learning and education, well captured in Jacobson and Wilensky’s target article, is to provide a unifying force to bring together increasingly fragmented scientific communities. The day when scientists have time to read broadly across chemistry, biology, physics, and social sciences is long gone. Journals, conferences, and academic departmental structures are becoming increasingly specialized and myopic. As Peter Csermely (1999), one of the organizers of the International Forum of Young Scientists expresses it,