Introducing Complexity
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Important issues are complex issues. First-year students have prepared for college with mostly multiple-choice, right/wrong instruction. Working through complexity is a large developmental step for students. Dr. Chris Bell, Jackson School of Geosciences, discusses what a few teachers have learned about moving students out of dualistic, right-wrong thinking.
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