During the government of Salvador Allende, Chile implemented a paradigmatic system of
control and regulation of production, emerged from the need of controlling and knowing the …

Introduces the field of complex learning and describes the articles in this and a following
special issue on complex learning in computer environments. Highlights include chaos …

Discusses Gordon Pask's contributions to our understanding of learning and, in particular,
his insistence that its occurrence forces an observer to change the reference frame used to …

The paper highlights the need for education that is truly enlightening, an education that
provides reflexive awareness of what it is to be a human social actor, one that is …

This article traces how Second-Order cybernetics came into being. It emphasizes the
objections raised against first-order cybernetics and, in doing so, describes the process …

Good evening![audience responds:“Good evening!”] You know, usually I have to go further
south—Washington DC doesn't know whether it is the South or not—to get people to …

… in which we pass through eleven episodes in the history of cybernetics, each episode
focusing on one of its perspectives on learning. We end with a coda where we define …

This article delves into the systemic dimensions of learning, particularly in the sense of non-
conceptual, intuitive learning. Even though complex situations and problems may be beyond …

One of the more prominent, and still growing, areas in the systems sciences is that of
complexity theory. Premised on the idea that complex behaviours arise in situations which …