EP110 Brad Kershner on Education&Complexity - a podcast by .

Brad Kershner&Jim on his book, Understanding Educational Complexity: Integrating Practices and Perspectives for 21st Century Leadership...





Brad Kershner talks to Jim about his book, Understanding Educational Complexity: Integrating Practices and Perspectives for 21st Century Leadership. They cover how Brad defines complexity, key contextual aspects of education, the four quadrants of Integral Theory &how he used them when observing schools, identifying&working with strange attractors, leadership, driving change in complexity, turbulence vs perturbation, position-based vs role-based leadership, complex vs complicated systems, mixed-age education, enabling creativity in teaching, and the importance of autonomy. They finish the episode by talking about theories of psychological development: Kegan levels, Integral Theory, hierarchical complexity, avoiding stage simplification, and much more.

Episode TranscriptMentions&RecommendationsBrad's Early SchoolBrad's YouTube LecturesJRS: EP100 Sam Bowles on Our Cooperative NatureJim's article, In Search of the 5th AttractorZak Stein JRS EpisodesTheo L. Dawson&other Lectica Board MembersHanzi Freinacht JRS Episodes

Brad Kershner is a school leader and independent scholar, and the author of Understanding Educational Complexity: Integrating Practices and Perspectives for 21st Century Leadership. His research, teaching, and writing cover a wide range of interdependent topics, including education, leadership, parenting, race, technology, metamodernism, integral theory, meditation, developmental psychology, complexity, and sociocultural emergence.

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