School institutions as complex systemic organizations: A multidisciplinary perspective

Abstract

The chapter that follows, tries to highlight the reasons why educational institutions should be considered complex systemic organizations. The multidisciplinary approach suggested tends to make use, on one hand, of different lenses, in order to appreciate the organizational phenomenon taken into consideration, on the other, it is an effort to join different epistemes for practical purposes. It is itself the expression of the contemporary man’s attitude toward complexity. Since this is showed through circles of relations and interactions among the component parts of phenomena and accidents, the suggestion is to develop a cognitive method to stay with it side by side, in order to manage it, without being entrapped by it. This possibility lies in a new system of thought, critical and systemic that acknowledges what is happening and the same problematic nature of reality in terms of dynamism and probability, instead of linearity and consequentiality.