Systemic Design as an Explanation of Powerful Learning Experience

Gordon Rowland

Our past studies have pointed toward complexity science as a source of potential explanation for especially powerful learning experiences. Our most recent inquiry with the Sea Education Association took us further into complex systems and added design. We have found that systemic design, viewed as an epistemology, appears to better account for powerful learning than any explanation to date. We thus speculate that development and adaptation of concepts and tools of systemic design may offer means to making learning experiences more powerful.