In the present book the basic principles of the systemic approach are exposed, in order to approximate the readers to a complex and holistic understanding of the world, in which the whole and the parts have identity and are explained each other. The text give an special attention to the educational dimension which come from these approaches.

Its chapters make reference to the present world challengers, the arrival of the systemic thinking, the changes of paradigm…, taking as the base the notion of system and the concepts associated to it, and from the study of the complexity of systems (adaptation/innovation, order/disorder relationships…) to expose, finally, the contributions and applications of the systemic approach to education.