Network thinking in education

Network thinking

All organisms work in Network or structure , Existing closer and stronger ties of attachment (such as the family) to more diffuse, distant and random ties (such as economics).

Just as behind each photograph there is a story made up of a set of interacting elements (family, groups of friends, work teams, system
Educational, economic, political, etc.), our Learning is a Social product based on the interactions that we maintain with a changing environment And is reinforced as to the use we give them and the breadth they possess.

Thus, we can say that, as time goes on, the set of interactions that give rise to photography changes (for example Above), in addition to the perspective from which it is judged, and gains in the capacity of analysis and interpretation of the same when acquiring a greater Experiential baggage .

Just as the"image"influences us by offering us information about a period of history that We do not know, we influence the set of networks in which we are immersed as it influences us through the interactions
That in them are produced (counting ours).

In short, we rely on these networks to conform as these networks depend on We to conform, dynamic to which we denominate interdependence .

These are some approaches that plunge us into the Network thinking : That which occurs in an increasingly interconnected environment In which it is just as easy to learn that unlearn (Unlearn not as concept Contrary to learning by forgetting all knowledge and acquired experience, but as the act of expanding cultural baggage with new or Renewed that arise from the questioning of the"is that it has always been done").

In education, network thinking is constantly being done. At the class level, interaction networks woven between students form a focus of Experiences (friendships, conflicts, etc.) through which they teach one another at the same time as they learn (many times without it being necessary The intervention of the teacher). In this sense, the teacher is like an orchestra director who guides, links content and endowing them with depth Necessary as they come out of the class-group.

At the institution level we would be talking about a huge network in which both the teachers, the board of directors, the coordinators, Families, secretarial staff, etc. All of them interdependent and changing as well as changing (with a clear intention to improve).

This Leads us to the idea that We can intervene on certain elements to achieve a significant and lasting improvement throughout the whole . However, if not We are well interconnected in all this network of relationships, as well as lacking the tools that can help us to better deal with problems that Arise in its heart, we will hardly be able to perceive the elements on which we can act to change them and improve the whole, since the Risk that we run from not questioning anything and thinking that it is because"it has always been done"is much greater.


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