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Rooted in diverse cultures and in distinct regions of the world, Indigenous people have for generations created, maintained, and negotiated clear and explicit relationships with their environments. Despite numerous historical disruptions and steady iterations of imperialism that continue through today, indigenous communities embody communities of struggle/resistance and intense vitality/creativity. In this work, a fellowship of Indigenous research has emerged, and our collective intent is to share critical narratives that link together Indigenous worldviews, culturally-based notions of ecology, and educational practices in places and times where human relationships with the world that are restorative, transformative, and just are being sought

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION -- CREATIVE EMERGENCE, ORDER, AND CHAOS: GRAPPLING WITH THE COMPLEXITY OF COMPLEXITY THEORY -- THE DUAL-EDGED SWORD OF SIMPLISTIC REDUCTIONISM -- TRAPPED WITHIN METAPHORS -- AN OVERVIEW OF THE CONTENTS IN THE VOLUME -- REFERENCES -- SECTION 2: COMPLEXITY IN STEM PROCESSES AND STRUCTURES -- LEARNING: CREATION OR RE-CREATION? FROM CONSTRUCTIVISM TO THE THEORY OF DIDACTICAL SITUATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CREATION AND EDUCATION -- CREATION AT THE CROSSROADS OF PARADOXES -- MATHEMATICAL EDUCATION - CREATION OR REPRODUCTION? -- Example of a Situation -- CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF CONDITIONS OF CREATION: RESPONSIVENESS TO DIDACTICAL CONTRACT -- Methodology -- Didactical Environment and Responsiveness to Didactical Contract -- Analysis of Effects of Didactical Environments on Creativity -- Results and Comments -- Conditions of the Experiment -- Results and Comments -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INVESTIGATING MATHEMATICAL CREATIVITY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THROUGH THE LENS OF COMPLEXITY THEORY -- MATHEMATICAL CREATIVITY IN THE CLASSROOM -- THE CLASSROOM AS A COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEM -- CLASSROOM EPISODES -- Setting -- Episode 1: Internal Diversity, Redundancy, and Occasioning Mathematical Creativity -- Episode 2a: Balancing Stability and Change in a Fifth Grade Classroom -- Episode 2b: Adapting to the Emergence of Creativity -- Episode 3: How Can Insight Displayed by One Individual be Viewed through the Lens of Complexity Theory? -- RELATING COMPLEXITY THEORY TO EMERGENT CREATIVITY -- REFERENCES -- ON THE EDGE OF CHAOS: ROBOTS IN THE CLASSROOM -- HISTORY AND PROGRAMS -- LEGO MINDSTORMS Kits -- FIRST LEGO League -- Robotics in the Classroom -- Research on Robotics in the Classroom -- ROBOTICS, CONSTRUCTIVISM, AND THE EDGE OF CHAOS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

The article by Stella Batagiannis brings into sharp relief issues confronting education in general in the United States through the narrative of an immigrant inside the system. In particular. Ms. Batagiannis addresses current policy level rhetoric and subsequent decision making that has led to increased polarization of views about the nature and purpose of public schools, the role of teachers, and measured accountability through high stakes testing as the shibboleth for society. This reaction, in the form of voices is composed by another immigrant to the United States (Bharath Sriraman), and two Norwegian aliens1 to the system (Haavold Per 0ystein and Gunnar Kristiansen) .