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2020 - Volume 3 - Number 1

Negotiating Course Design in the Mexican Educational System Using Complex Thought: A Case Study in Central Mexico

Troy Crawford * crawford@ugto.mx * ORCID: 0000-0001-5403-1476 * ResearcherID: Q-2908-2018
University of Guanajuato, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Language Department, Guanajuato, MEXICO

Isaac Frausto Hernández * isaacfhdz@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0001-9984-7962
University of Guanajuato, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Language Department, Guanajuato, MEXICO

Irasema Mora-Pablo * imora@ugto.mx * ORCID: 0000-0001-8532-5522 * ResearcherID: R-1524-2018
University of Guanajuato, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Language Department, Guanajuato, MEXICO

Michael Witten * michaelwitten1@yahoo.com * ORCID: 0000-0002-2548-5038
Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, Faculty of Languages, Language Department, Puebla, MEXICO

Open Journal for Studies in Linguistics, 2020, 3 (1), 1-12 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsl.0301.01001c
Received: 5 March 2020 ▪ Accepted: 25 May 2020 ▪ Published Online: 20 June 2020

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
The University of Guanajuato joined in a national research project that aims to redesign the type of classroom guides teachers use to plan their coursework. The project places its theoretical framework on the philosophical position of Edgar Morin’s complex thought. Through redesign of the classroom guide for a course of curriculum design in an MA in Applied Linguistics at the University of Guanajuato a collaborative ethnography was developed to look at how the interwoven steps of complex thought could be inserted into the course framework in order to see if there was an impact from the student’s perspective of their learning.

KEY WORDS: Bloom’s Taxonomy, complex thought, case study, course design.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Troy Crawford, University of Guanajuato, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities Language Department, Calzada de Gpe. S/N, Guanajuato, Gto. 36000, MEXICO. E-mail: crawford@ugto.mx.

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