Planning Meeting for a National Initiative on Complex Systems in K-16 Education

该项目将资助计划会议，为一个更大的会议创建一个长期的公共国家议程，将复杂性的新思想，非线性现象的动态系统建模以及相关的思想，如涌现和分形描述，纳入美国公民的主流教育经验。一个邀请计划会议将在波士顿附近举行，最后一次也是第二次公开会议将于1999年深秋在华盛顿特区举行。这个建议是为规划会议提供资金，并提供概念基础和实际信息来定义第二次规划。我们的规划必然涉及不同的学者、科学家和教育工作者群体，他们为我们的重大任务带来了不同的经验、见解和观点。第一次会议的结果将是一系列工作文件和以前工作的摘要和网站，这些文件和摘要将成为主要公开会议和有关国家议程的基础。

This project will fund the planning conference for a larger meeting to create a long term public national agenda for incorporating, new ideas of complexity, dynamical systems modeling of nonlinear phenomena and related ideas such as emergence and fractal descriptions into the mainstream educational experience of American citizens. An invitational planning meeting will be held near Boston, the final and second, a public conference in Washington, DC in late autumn of 1999. This proposal is to fund the planning meeting and provide the conceptual foundations and practical information to define the second. Our planning necessarily involves distinct communities of scholars, scientists and educators who bring diverse experiences, insights and perspectives to our large task. The outcome of the first meeting will be a series of working papers and summaries of prior work and web site that will be the basis for the major public conference and the associated national agenda.