ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of issues related to learning about complex systems and the application of complexity concepts and approaches that were considered as part of presentations at the Education in Complex Systems session given during the Second International Conference on Complex Systems. There are at least two main challenges related to the sciences of complex and dynamical systems for education and training broadly construed to encompass schools and the workplace. On the mathematical side, education dealing with complexity and dynamical systems knowledge will need to integrate with the existing relevant school curricula involving notions of rate and ratio, periodicity, composition/iteration, randomness and probability, and so on. Fortunately, the education oriented presentations in second international conference on complex systems discussed innovative representational, pedagogical, and learning approaches that show promise for meeting these challenges. The challenges and the work to be done notwithstanding, the importance of the projects described in these presentations should not be underestimated.
