Pragmatism, Post-modernism, and Complexity Theory

William E. Doll, Jr. is Emeritus Professor – Louisiana State University, College of Education and Adjunct Professor at University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia, Canada.

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction: William F. Pinar Part One: Personal ReflectionsIntroduction: Donna Trueit2. A Path Stumbled Upon (2009) 3. Looking Back to the Future: A Recursive Retrospective (2008)4. Struggles with Spirituality (2002)5. Memory of a Mentor: John Steve Mann (2009)Part Two: Dewey, Piaget, Bruner, Whitehead: Process and TransformationIntroduction: Donna Trueit6. A Methodology of Experience, Part I (1972) 7. Developing Competence (1980) 8. Beyond Method (2002) 9. Crafting an Experience10. Piagetian Thought (2010) 11. Modes of Thought (2003). 12. Keeping Knowledge Alive (2005) 13. Response to Proulx: Maturana Is Not A Constructivist – Nor is Piaget (2008) Part Three: Modern/Post-Modern: Structures, Forms and Organization Introduction: Donna Trueit14. Modernism (2010)15. Prigogine: A New Sense of Order (1986)16. Post-Modernism’s Utopian Vision (1990) 17. Structures of the Post-Modern (2011) Part Four: Complexity Thinking Introduction: Donna Trueit18. Recursions on Complexity (1998) 19. Complexity (2008) 20. Thinking Complexly (2010) Part Five: Reflections on Teaching Introduction: Donna Trueit 21. The Educational Need to Re-invent the Wheel (1981) 22. Complexity in the Classroom (1989) 23. Reflections on Teaching: Developing the Non-Linear (1999) 24. Classroom Management (2000) 25. "Looking Forward" (2006) 26. Da Xia Lecture (2011) List of Contributors

"A landmark and visionary book…. Doll’s work, collected in this single volume for the first time, demonstrates both his scholarly brilliance and pedagogical wisdom."Hongyu Wang, Oklahoma State University, USA