Community of Inquiry as a Complex Communicative System

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  • Nadia Stoyanova Kennedy

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Introduction: Complexity theory has been steadily gaining recognition over the last half a century as a new way of understanding the organization of systems on all levels-whether organisms, social systems, business organizations, or ecosystems. Contrary to a mechanistic, analytic approach to the study of phenomena, the complexity perspective takes into account all interactions between the components of a system, which it understands as in dynamic interplay. In this paper, I will attempt to re-describe community of inquiry (CI) as a complex system, and draw some implications that follow from taking into account such description.

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02/07/2018

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Kennedy, N. S. (2018). Community of Inquiry as a Complex Communicative System. Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 33(1), 13–18. Retrieved from https://journal.viterbo.edu/index.php/atpp/article/view/1079

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