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Inquiring into Learning as System

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Possibly the most fundamental skill that is required in the emerging Knowledge Age is the ability to learn. This capability resides not only with individuals, but also at every other systemic level from dyads, groups and teams, to organisations, institutions and society at large. Indeed, learning is a veritable haystack of complex, interacting and inter-related elements that span the levels of the social system. Thus, research into learning that focuses on one or another level of analysis is necessarily limited in its explanatory capacity. It cannot be said that any element or isolated set of elements enables learning; to take this view is to err on the side of naiveté.

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Byrne, S., Todd, D., Simpson, B., Woods, C., Seidel, R. (2002). Inquiring into Learning as System. In: Ragsdell, G., West, D., Wilby, J. (eds) Systems Theory and Practice in the Knowledge Age. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0601-0_14

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