The teacher's agency system reached dynamic stability at the edge of chaos in the final period¶
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q2 i? In the third period the teacher's agency system settled into a balance of stability and creativity that the authors interpret through Waldrop's edge-of-chaos concept. → Qi 2022
Evidence¶
Qi 2022¶
Qi, G. Y., & Wang, Y. (2022). Challenges and responses: A Complex Dynamic Systems approach to exploring language teacher agency in a blended classroom. The JALT CALL Journal, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.29140/jaltcall.v18n1.569
q2 · i? · qualitative · r3
Authors' interpretation of the final five weeks of the semester, in which self-rated capacity curves (Figure 2) appear stable while reflection and andragogical innovation continued from Week 3 onwards.
"The third period was poised on the edge of chaos, where her agency "had enough stability to sustain itself" (Cleveland, 1994) and enough creativity to stay healthy and vigorous."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Teacher agency development proceeds through temporal phases in which different subsystems dominate — related
- Complex systems function properly only when self-assertive and integrative tendencies are in equilibrium — a broader claim this one bears on
- Challenges of blended delivery catalyse opportunities for teacher agency growth — related
- Reflexive noticing shifts teacher discourse from stabilization to possibility, while surprises alone often re-stabilize it — related
- The better the five foundations are integrated, the greater the probability of success in the designed setting — related
- Dynamic self-regulation of brain subsystems enables simultaneous multisource learning beyond conscious attention — related
- Dynamic systems theory and sociocultural theory are incommensurable because language is a complex adaptable, not adaptive, system — related
- Switching to an updated synchronous platform catalysed the teacher's ongoing teaching innovation — related
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The teacher's agency system reached dynamic stability at the edge of chaos in the final period |
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The teacher's agency system reached dynamic stability at the edge of chaos in the final period |
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