ABSTRACT
From complexity theory, we learn that each layer in the education system is equally as complex as the next, and that layers upon layers interact to form a web of relations and learning. Each agent—“neurons, instantiations, schemata, persons, social clusters, subcultures, species”—each caught in the tangles of relationships that work “toward efforts to trigger, nurture, manipulate, and sustain complexity” (Davis, this volume). In this hive of learning, you can hardly stop the buzzing of bodies caught in their endless state of emergence. Students, teachers, administrators, parents, policymakers, all making their way in a complex learning system. Each changing in relation to the other within a tangle of enabling constraints that encourage evolution of the entire system. Our learning forever imprinted with the learning of others, whether acknowledged or not. Our ideas, even our identities, are never singularly ours.
