Chapter 7

<p>In our increasingly complex world, care and compassion alone are insufficient to ensure effective ethical engagement in the world. Rather, good intentions must be complemented with responsible decision-making based on an understanding of the wider systems within which we live. Students must be prepared to grapple with issues of complexity so that they can better understand the world around them, and better engage with and within it.  </p><p>Chapter 7 of the curriculum focuses on systems and systems thinking. These are not entirely new topics, but have been introduced throughout the curriculum. In Chapter 1, students drew an interdependence web, showing how many things are connected to a single item or event. In Chapters 3 and 4, they explored how emotions arise from causes and within a context, and that a spark can turn into a forest fire, affecting everything around it. Systems thinking is built into the entire curriculum, but in this chapter it is approached directly and explicitly.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fpYO55Hui1boG7S3JkXb4i3xozToFIex/view?… full chapter</strong></a></p>