This entry explores complexity theory, its meaning, its origins, its foundational ideas and its relationship to action research. As a cross-disciplinary theory, complexity is concerned with evolving and changing non-linear systems and the inability to totally understand the whole system through an understanding of the parts. The entry argues that complexity can provide an epistemological, theoretical ...

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