Learning Causality in a Complex World

Understandings of Consequence

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

AvTina A. Grotzer

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What do children’s interactions on the playground have to do with foreign policy? How does science understanding in middle school relate to environmental disasters in third world countries? The causal patterns that we detect and how we act upon them pervade every aspect of our lives. These skills will only become more important in the future as our world becomes more global and more interconnected. Yet we aren’t very skilled at thinking about causality. Research shows that instead we rely on limiting default assumptions that can lead to poor choices in a complex world. What can we do about it? This book offers ways to become aware of these patterns and to reframe our thinking to become more effective learners and citizens of the world. Through examples and accessible explanations, it offers a causal curriculum to enable more effective learning so that we can put the power of better causal understanding to work for ourselves and the next generation— for today and tomorrow.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-06-28
Mått162 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt472 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781610488631

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Tina Grotzer is associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a senior researcher at Project Zero. Dr. Grotzer studies how people reason about causal complexity and its implications for K-12 education and the public understanding of science. For this work, she received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, one of the highest honors given by the United States government.

Ch 1: IntroductionPart 1: The Lure of Simple CausalityCh 2: Simple Linear Causality: One Thing Makes Another HappenCh 3: The Cognitive Science of Simple Causality: Why Do We Get Stuck? Part 2: Getting Beyond Simple: A Set of Causal Patterns for the CurriculumCh 4: Domino Causality: Effects that Become CausesCh 5: Cyclic Causality: Loops and FeedbackCh 6: Spiraling Causality: Escalation and De-escalationCh 7: Mutual Causality: Symbiosis and Bi-DirectionalityCh 8: Relational Causality: Balances and DifferentialsPart 3: Features of Complex Causality and Our Related Default AssumptionsCh 9: Across Time and Distance: Detecting Delayed and Distant EffectsCh 10: “What Happened?” vs. “What’s Going On?”: Thinking about Steady StatesCh 11: What You Can’t See Does Matter: Attending to Obvious and Non-Obvious CausesCh 12: It’s Not Always a Case of Who Did It: Minding Passive and Unintentional CausalityCh 13: Step by Step…Or Not: The Mind-Bending Concept of Simultaneous CausalityCh 14: Figuring Out What to Count On: Dealing with Stochastic CausalityCh 15: Isn’t Anybody in Charge Around Here?: Attending to Distributed Causality and EmergencePart 4: Summing Up: The Implications for Helping a New Generation Understand Causal ComplexityCh 16: Putting it All Together: Teaching for Causal Complexity

The ability to understand complex causal relations in the world is becoming ever more important for students, workers, and leaders. For many years, Tina Grotzer, one of the nation’s leading researchers on the development of scientific thinking, has focused her work on this cognitive capacity; she has done more than anyone to elucidate how such complex forms of thinking can be acquired. Her book on this topic will be of great interest to researchers, educators, parents, and others who want to see our children use their minds well.