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Systems Thinking, Pattern Thinking, and Abductive Thinking as the Key Elements of Complex Learning

The present paper describes a novel model of teaching for complex learning that will also increase students' abilities to transfer their knowledge across subject matter domains. This paper focuses on how the model affects student learning and transfer. In general, this theoretical model suggests that the implementation of such an approach will: 1. Increase children S complex learning, which includes in-depth conceptual understandings, abstract explanatory models and principles, and connections across subject matter areas. 2. Increase children's ability to transfer knowledge across subject matter areas and other experiential contexts, including language and culture. 3. Increase children's achievement levels without teaching directly to the test. 4. Increase our understandings of how children develop complex understandings that can be transferred across subject matter domains and other contexts. 5. Increase our understanding of the effectiveness of different teaching styles and approaches in implementing a model of teaching for complex and transferable understandings.

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cross subject matters, complex learning, model of teaching, комплексное (междисциплинарное) обучение, образное мышление, системное мышление

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Bloom Jeffrey W.	College of Education Northern Arizona University Flagstaff	ieff.bloom@nau.edu

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