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Complexity and Education: Inquiries Into Learning, Teaching, and Research by Brent Davis and Dennis Sumara is a theoretical work in educational studies that examines how complexity thinking can reshape understandings of learning, teaching, and research. Rather than treating education as a linear process in which causes produce predictable outcomes, the book approaches classrooms, knowledge, institutions, and inquiry practices as complex phenomena shaped by interaction, emergence, adaptation, and context. Its purpose is not to provide a ready made teaching method or a set of classroom activities, but to clarify why complexity theory matters for education and how it can influence educational research and professional judgment. The book is especially relevant to graduate students, educational researchers, and reflective practitioners who want alternatives to mechanistic models of curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Its central contribution is to position education as a living, relational, and evolving field of activity.