This article examined chaos theory to applicate to research in educational administration. The basic concepts and models of chaos theory were reviewed. Those are concept of chaos, butterfly effect, strange attractors, fractals, concept of chaotic syst...
This article examined chaos theory to applicate to research in educational administration. The basic concepts and models of chaos theory were reviewed. Those are concept of chaos, butterfly effect, strange attractors, fractals, concept of chaotic system that has nonlinear relations, and self organization whose characteristics is creation of fluctuation, autonomy, self-transendence, micro-macro cooperation, share of information, teleonomy.
Some implications and discussions is given to research in educational administration about nonlinearity, hidden behavior pattern, bounded instability, controll and autonomy, vision and culture, self organization and organizational learning.