Subject: Over Two-Hundred Annotated References on Systems Thinking

Posted by Richard Hake on 12/19/2009

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Some subscribers to K-12SD might be interested in the compilation "Over Two-Hundred Annotated References on Systems Thinking" [Hake (2009)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: This 1.7 MB compilation of over 200 annotated references and over 300 hot-linked URL's provides a window into the vast literature on "Systems Thinking."

Systems Thinking is characterized by the consideration of natural, scientific, engineered, human, or conceptual entities as systems in which the component parts interact with one another and with other systems so as to produce emergent properties which cannot be understood through analysis of the single parts of the system.

Examples are provided by twelve quotes of systems thinkers.

References are given in alphabetical order with superscripts that indicate their origin in the following categories: Ecology, Economics, Education, Engineering, Evaluation, General, and Physics.
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To access the complete compilation please click on (1.78 MB).


Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367 Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands.







REFERENCES
Hake, R.R. 2009. "Over Two-Hundred Annotated References on Systems Thinking," online at:
a. (1.7 MB);

b. as reference #58 at ; and

c. at

(or in tiny URL form ) with a provision for comments.