Papers by Fathimath Saeed
Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership
Chaos and complexity theory has been used in the study of the natural sciences for over thirty ye... more Chaos and complexity theory has been used in the study of the natural sciences for over thirty years. Throughout the years, experts from various fields have used it as a new way to view the world around them, including its applications to the field of education and subsystems within the education system. However very few studies have been conducted on the application of chaos theory to classroom discipline. The field of classroom discipline, like the natural world, can also be observed from this perspective because it exhibits many features of chaotic/complex systems. Classrooms are often described as complex, dynamic and unpredictable environments. This makes it difficult for teachers to understand and manage classroom discipline. This paper explores the complexity of classroom discipline and how the principles of chaos and complexity theory reflect on classroom discipline. This would help inform management strategies and alternatives that would in turn enhance and improve student ...
Springer Proceedings in Complexity, 2014
Education is a trans-phenomenal, trans-disciplinary, and inter-discursive enterprise. Research in... more Education is a trans-phenomenal, trans-disciplinary, and inter-discursive enterprise. Research into education necessarily reflects this. Educational theorists are making increasing use of the metaphors and concepts of complexity thinking in their discourses. This is normally done in company of exploration of chaotic tendencies in education systems. In this paper we discuss the elements of complexity that engulf educational systems today and highlight some cases of chaos in the education system as well. In doing so we also dissect the properties of fractals which obtain in chaos and complexity theory and how they relate with the features of education systems. We conclude by arguing that if the managers and stakeholders in education are fully abreast with properties of fractals, they would find education systems quite manageable since the properties would inform their operations through understanding the nature, steps and implications of various scenarios in the education system. Thus knowledge of fractal properties becomes a sine-qua-non for educational management and understanding of education systems. We hope the study is a ground breaking one and there is no gain saying that it will contribute massively to the growing body of elusive knowledge that is fractals and how they can help educationists transform the education systems.
Springer Proceedings in Complexity, 2016
Many events that take place in the education sector can be shown as examples of chaos and uncerta... more Many events that take place in the education sector can be shown as examples of chaos and uncertainty. These events indicate that the foresight we previously demonstrated linearly is insufficient and the factors that we overlook or undervalue can result in enormous and unexpected consequences. This shows that poorly managed small factors lead to large and negative consequences. Besides, regardless of the positive or negative nature of its consequences, the butterfly effect is expressed as: “small events lead to big events”. If innovation and improvement are desired in education, leaders begin from the lowest stage instead of the upper stages of the system in order to accomplish this. In this case, the leader must have further information with the aim of providing more activities and information to respond to the challenges within the system. Thus the leader both equips himself better and forces senior management to offer better opportunities. In this way improvement does not remain only in the education system, it also spreads to the other systems of the country. In this case, the leader would have achieved a better health care system, a better construction system, a better security system, etc. as well as a better education system thanks to the trigger created within the system. This paper sought to demonstrate that although chaos and complexity within systems scare and bother us, they force us to change and evolve better. For this to happen though, leaders must adopt coping mechanisms to counter chaotic and complex situations which the paper dully explored. There is no gain saying therefore, that effective leaders, can prevail over chaos and complexity laden situations and transform their systems or organizations in order to catapult them to even greater heights.
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