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Children's Stories & the Quantum Administrator

Alexander R. Dawoody

Public Voices, 2016

Abstract

This article examines the analogous relation between children's literature and the complex (quantum and chaotic) world of public administration. Public policy and public administration interact with every aspect in our lives and leave their mark on how we perceive reality. One of the formats that express these realities is children's literature. Through the narratives of children's literature, we reflect our experiences and conscious outlooks toward life. Children's literature is a fertile arena for our interactions with the world, and it bridges our past, present and future by extending itself beyond time and place, enabling us to understand and reflect on the complex world in which we live. By understanding children's literature through the complexity lenses of chaos and quantun theories, we are able to liberate ourselves from the artificial constraints imposed on us by the mundane adulthood, and return once again with the same energy and curiosity to questioning the world.

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