Negotiating Course Design in the Mexican Educational System Using Complex Thought: A Case Study in Central Mexico

The University of Guanajuato joined in a national research project that aims to redesign the type of classroom guides teachers use to plan their coursework. The project places its theoretical framework on the philosophical position of Edgar Morin's complex thought. Through redesign of the classroom guide for a course of curriculum design in an MA in Applied Linguistics at the University of Guanajuato a collaborative ethnography was developed to look at how the interwoven steps of complex thought could be inserted into the course framework in order to see if there was an impact from the student's perspective of their learning.