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This interactive workshop will engage participants in exploring how critical complexity approaches can help us think differently about education/educational research during a time of multiple overlapping human and planetary crises. Critical complexity brings together insights from complexity theory with critical perspectives such as posthumanism and feminist materialisms to consider teaching and learning as multiple, situated, distributed, political, affective, dynamic, and materially-mediated processes.  

The event will include a framing lecture and discussion led by Dr. Katie Strom, California State University, East Bay, as well as offer sessions for participants to collaborate across both specialist and inter-disciplinary groups as they engage with specific concepts to examine their own situated problems of (pedagogical or research) practice. Ultimately, the event will provide the opportunity to talk across multiple strands of complexity approaches, connect with other researchers interested in educational complexity, and generate concrete ideas to move forward scholarship and practice to (re)imagine education (and life) for sustainable futures.