ABSTRACT

A giant icy planet is thought to circle slowly around the fringes of our solar system in an elliptical orbit 100 billion miles away from the sun at its furthest point, making its solar revolution about once in fifteen thousand years. Bill Doll to Planet Nine, circling the known world of educational theory in his own orbit, his revolutionary ideas slowly manifesting as adventurous seekers begin to infer the presence of something of enormous import just outside our range of perception. Bill Doll stood on the shoulders of these giants of constructivist thought and peered into the far horizon of the known. In that vast distance, he saw the emerging sciences of chaos and complexity as having the power to push our understandings of teaching, learning, and curriculum into entirely new spaces. Educational practices do not change easily, and anyone who has engaged in school reform or renewal can testify that genuine transformation is an elusive process.