Abstract

FLOREZ ROMERO, Rita; CASTRO MARTINEZ, Jaime  and  ARIAS VELANDIA, Nicolás. Communication, language and education: a look from the theories of complexity. Folios [online]. 2009, n.30, pp.25-38. ISSN 0123-4870.

This work presents a conceptual model on the relationship communication - education from the perspective of complexity theories, using communicative interaction as analysis unit. In the birth of complexity explanations, the concept of system is explained, and is understood as a set of elements and relationships among them that tend to stay organized and to generate new elements. From this point of view, the basic concepts in complexity theories -self-organization, non-linearity, and the relationships among the system and other subordinate and superordinate systems -emerge as an explanation to communicative interaction. These concepts explain three communicative interaction aspects in education: knowledge structures, teacher- student relationship and knowledge environments. The new findings on the framework given by the relationship complexity-education-communication shows that a perspective on development and integration in causal dynamics about communicative interaction is needed to explain the complexity inherent to educative reality. This new language should focus on a natural science-social science new synthesis.

Keywords : Complexity; self-organization; relationship communication; non-linearity; knowledge.

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