Teaching complex time through pattern thinking and understanding

To move beyond its industrial era mechanistic paradigm, western education needs to include knowledges that enable students think with and engage an increasingly complex world. The teaching learning of time is one such knowledge, pattern thinking understanding are useful for this undertaking. As part their practice, the author developed implemented a patterns-based design educational strategy called spiraltime patterning secondary school more than decade ago. Recently, approach was university as doctoral inquiry project focused on general complexity understanding. Spiraltime designed perturb dominance linear temporalities reposition them within multitemporal time. broad aim work contribute transformational education, by facilitating temporal coherence wellbeing students, through embodied phenomenon.