In higher education, we concentrate so much effort in our separate specialties that we lose sight of how all our work comes together into this thing called an education. As a result, we are asking students to wrestle alone with the critical job of creating connections and finding coherence. But what if we took on this job for ourselves? Systems thinking offers us a way to start.
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