Parts of the Whole: Approaching Education as a System

An educational system is a highly coupled complex system of inputs, outputs, sensors and actuators. Using an engineering perspective, this column begins the process of naming and categorizing parts of the system. It then focuses on teachers as one part of a large system, and analyzes the forces that...

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Main Author:	Dorothy Wallace
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	National Numeracy Network 2009-07-01
Series:	Numeracy
Subjects:	education management systemic reform policy
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1936-4660.2.2.9

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Parts of the Whole: Approaching Education as a System

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