Introduction to Education as a Complex Dynamical System -- Complexity of School Environments and Educational Contexts -- A Batesonian Perspective on Qualitative Research and Complex Human Systems -- Emergence Self-Transcending and Education -- Opening the Wondrous World of the Possible for Education -- Towards the teaching of motor skills as a system of growing complexity -- The Fractal Dynamics of Early Childhood Play Development and Nonlinear Teaching and Learning -- Ergodicity and Merits of the Single Case -- Catastrophe Theory: Methodology, Epistemology and Applications in Learning Science -- Evaluating Complex Educational Systems with Quadratic Assignment Processes and Exponential Random Graph Model Methods -- Looking at’ Educational Interventions Surplus Value of a Complex Dynamic Systems Approach to Study the Effectiveness of a Science and Technology Educational Intervention -- Analyzing teacher-student interactions with State Space Grids -- Nonlinear Dynamical Interaction Patterns in Collaborative Groups: Discourse Analysis with Orbital Decomposition -- Investigating the Long Memory Process in Daily High School Attendance Data -- Educational Systems and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality: A Complex Dynamical Systems Perspective -- The Symbolic Dynamics of Visual Attention During Learning: Exploring the Application of Orbital Decomposition -- A catastrophe model for motivation and emotions: Highlighting the Synergistic Role of Performance-Approach and Performance-Avoidance Goal Orientations. .

This book capitalizes on the developments in dynamical systems and education by presenting some of the most recent advances in this area in seventeen non-overlapping chapters. The first half of the book discusses the conceptual framework of complex dynamical systems and its applicability to educational processes. The second half presents a set of empirical studies that that illustrate the use of various research methodologies to investigate complex dynamical processes in education, and help the reader appreciate what we learn about dynamical processes in education from using these approaches.