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Feb. 4, 2023 -
PRLog -- There is a new book that shows how complexity science can be used to bring needed changes to higher ed, to gain a deeper understanding of the Mexico-US border and immigration issues and to address climate change. The author writes about classrooms, coral reefs, zebras and borders as a way to introduce complexity science (what used to be called chaos theory). An Introduction to Complexity Pedagogy, Using Critical Theory, Critical Pedagogy and Complexity in Performance & Literature, by D. Emily Hicks, Ph.D., is now available on Amazon. The book is published by Myers Education Press. It presents a model of the Mexico-US border as a complex system. The book is written for non-scientists, educators in interdisciplinary fields (STEM/STEAM)
advanced undergraduates and graduate students and the general reader with an interest in border regions, complexity and mixed ancestry. It includes tables with definitions of basic complexity concepts and how they are interrelated. There are individual chapters on the Choctaw author LeAnne Howe, the Chicana lesbian author Gloria Anzaldua, the performance artist Karen Finley and the performance art collaborators Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose. The book discusses mixed ancestry and refers to Melungeons and Redbones (a mixed ancestry population in the Louisiana-Texas border region). The research for this book was carried out with B.T. Werner, a geophysicist at Scripps/UC San Diego. Hicks is a member of the complexity lab directed by Werner. An Introduction to Complexity will soon be available in independent bookstores and chains in over 16 countries, including Barnes and Noble, Foyles in the UK and Libreria Gandhi in Mexico. More information about the book and the press may be found here:
https://myersedpress.presswarehouse.com/
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