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"A holistic perspective, systems thinking is fundamentally different from traditional forms of analysis that seek to explain an entity purely in terms of its constituent parts. Whereas 'analysis', derived from the Greek análusis, literally means "to unravel", or "to break into parts" (Aronson, 1996), systems thinking focuses on both specific parts and on the relationships and broader contextual patterns of organisation within any social, biological, physical or other complex system (Cabrera et al., 2008). As Senge explains, 'systems thinking is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns rather than static snapshots [...] a set of general principles spanning fields as diverse as physical and social sciences, engineering and management'. Thus, systems thinking is the idea that the nature and behaviour of a complex system is best explained in terms of the connections between its parts, relative to a common purpose. Hitchins (n.d.) illustrated this by comparing a dry, stone wall - easily dismantled and easily reconstructed - to a dismantled human, the pile of organs, bones and sinews having permanently lost the collective capacity to be human"--

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