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

该项目将资助规划会议的一个更大的会议，以创建一个长期的公共国家议程，将新的复杂性思想，非线性现象的动力系统建模和相关思想，如涌现和分形描述纳入美国公民的主流教育经验。 邀请规划会议将在波士顿附近举行，最后一次也是第二次，将于1999年深秋在华盛顿举行公开会议。 这项建议是为规划会议提供资金，并为确定第二个目标提供概念基础和实际信息。 我们的规划必然涉及学者，科学家和教育工作者谁带来不同的经验，见解和观点，我们的大任务不同的社区。 第一次会议的成果将是一系列工作文件和以前工作的摘要以及网站，这些文件和摘要将成为主要公开会议和相关国家议程的基础。

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.