Society is full of messages that present simple solutions to complex problems. They are attractive because they respond to intuition, and they seduce us with the magic recipe that apparently will help us face our challenges. However, the complexity of our world necessarily means that the solutions are also complex, and education is no stranger to this challenge. In fact, it is enough to read the headlines related to education to realize that, in general, we have given up on analyzing educational reality in depth. These pages review the most frequent simplifications around education, to analyze its nuances and edges. Its contradictions are also revealed, providing light from educational research to bring us closer to reality, admitting that the answers are perhaps more complex and uncertain than we would like. Educating in complexity is a calm reflection on education. Something like opening the windows and airing a topic that is sometimes too closed in opposing positions. Aimed at professionals in the educational world, but also at families and anyone interested in this fascinatingly complex world, this book assumes that complexity can be very beautiful if we train our gaze and look together for methods to analyse it.

Juan G. Fernández began his professional career as a teacher more than ten years ago, having previously worked as a researcher and technician in institutions such as the Polytechnic University of Madrid or the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid. Trying to find ways to improve as a teacher, he ended up creating a blog to share texts and articles on education. Carrying out this work, which he combines with his work as a teacher, he has read dozens of books and hundreds of articles. Four years and thousands of visits later, the blog has become a source of information for anyone interested in understanding education from a scientific point of view.