Pi:Next degree of complexity
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[edit] Next degree of complexity
The complexity of thought in teaching, notwithstanding subject matter, rises in four steps:
- learn
- teach
- teach to learn
- teach to teach (to learn)
A recurring pattern appears to be that concepts are raised to the next degree of complexity (as a possible Mutation) or that a gap is to raise a concept to the next degree of complexity. This could be seen as indistinguishable from a mutation of plausibility sometimes.
- Examples:
- Xenolinguistics could be seen as (to require) the next degree of complexity for intercultural competence.[1]
- Pupils who teach to learn and teachers who teach their pupils how to teach have reached the next (or the next but one) degree of complexity.
- Lifelong learning -> Lifelong teaching
- [1] at least in certain aspects; there are obviously aspects of intercultural competence that have no relation to analyzing a completely alien language. A teacher from a different planet [2] may find xenolinguistics a useful training for intercultural competence while a human teacher would probably object that intercultural competence has many aspects that are completely missing from xenolinguistics precisely because it is more complex in other aspects.
- [2] One could note that the reference to the pattern "teacher from a different planet" could be interpreted as to refer to either an actual extraterrestrial or to a teacher; the reference follows a rule for dictionary entries that hasn't previously been used for patterns, thereby, in a way, raising that rule to the "Next degree of complexity". This kind of unintended, emergent self-similarity keeps happening, e.g. [1] (page history under "see also")
