COMPLEXITY, EDUCATION AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Abstract

The present research seeks to somehow direct a line of research regarding complexity and nanotechnology within the complexity sciences represent a true revolution of knowledge. It can be said that they contain numerous theories, a diversity of explanatory models, concepts, methods and logic, and try to answer questions such as: Why are things or do they become complex? For complexity to emerge, two ingredients are necessary. The first is an irreversible medium in which events can occur: this medium is time, flowing from the immediate past into a future that is open. The reason for explaining the seemingly obvious is that the traditional laws of motion used to describe the behavior of matter on a microscopic level do not distinguish one direction of time from the other. However, we know from the tendency of snow to melt and our skin to wrinkle that a preferred direction of time stands out at the macroscopic level. This is the famous paradox of irreversibility that arises from the discontinuity between these two levels of description1. The second essential ingredient is non-linearity. We are all familiar with linear systems that have been a fundamental pillar of science for more than three hundred years. Because one plus one equals two, we can predict that the volume of water flowing from a faucet is doubled when the faucet drips twice as fast. Nonlinear systems do not obey these simple addition rules. Irreversibility and non-linearity characterize phenomena in each of the fields of science: the marks on the wing of a butterfly, the dots on the skin of a jaguar and the oscillations of living organisms, like the palpitations of a heart. , the functioning of nerve cells, etc. Related, but more subtle, forms of chaotic complexity also arise from non-linearity: seemingly random weather fluctuations, epidemics, and the spread of information, etc. Nanotechnology capable of designing and manipulating matter at the level of a few atoms has been applied in different areas, for example, public transportation, automobiles, among others. Nowadays, polymeric nanocomposites have attracted attention from the pharmaceutical and medical industries, etc. Mainly because these materials have interesting properties. Nanocomposites are made up of two or more components in which at least one of them has nanometric dimensions, and is dispersed within the matrix that can be polymeric, mechanical, quantum, etc. Through complex approaches, comprehensive training can be found, as Gadotty establishes.

Nanotechnology modifies the molecular structure of materials to create smart objects. Nanotechnology and its microscopic universe offer gigantic possibilities for contemporary science and industry. The use of nanotechnological control at the atomic scale (the scale of nature) has led to continued improvements in the efficiency of physical systems and the extension of its use to biology and other fields, but it also raises existential questions about human and machine. .

Nanotechnology is a field that allows the development of quite significant elements; in education it is quite a challenge, since it allows us to visualize a horizon of possibilities, which are framed in the educational context.

The flexible, elective teaching system, but with a systemic approach in the field of nanotechnology, is considered to be versatile and applicable and at the same time complex, with a training approach where complex systems are applied in the educational mesh and structure.