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Education is a system within a larger system—the social system. To become a systems thinker, it is therefore necessary to dissect the anatomy of your society and explore how its different elements become parts of a social system. This chapter explains both how education is a part of a social system and why it is important to understand the interactive elements within a social system in order to understand how education works.
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Gonzales, M. (2020). The Social System and Education. In: Systems Thinking for Supporting Students with Special Needs and Disabilities. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4558-4_3
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