Description
Ecologies for Learning and Practice provides the first systematic account of the ideas of learning ecologies and ecologies of practice and locates the two concepts within the context of our contemporary world. It focuses on how individuals and society are being presented with all manner of learning challenges arising from fluidities and disruptions, which extend across all domains of life. This book examines emerging ways of understanding and living purposively in these new fluidities and provides fresh perspectives on the way we learn and achieve in such dynamic contexts.
Providing an insight into the research of a range of internationally renowned contributors, this book explores diverse topics from the higher education and adult learning worlds. These include:
- The challenges faced by education systems today
- The concept of ecologies for learning and practice
- The role and responsibility of higher education institutions in advancing ecological approaches to learning
- The different eco-social systems of the world—local and global, economic, cultural, practical, technological, and ethical
- How adult learners might create and manage their own ecologies for learning and practice in order to sustain themselves and flourish
With its proposals for individual and institutional learning in the 21st century and concerns for our sustainability in a fragile world, Ecologies for Learning and Practice is an essential guide for all who seek to encourage and facilitate learning in a world that is fundamentally ecological in nature.
Table of Contents
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List of contributors
1 Introduction: Steps to Ecologies for Learning and Practice
Norman Jackson and Ronald Barnett
PART 1 Towards Ecologies for Learning and Practice
2 Animating Systems: The Ecological Value of Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Model of Development
Leah O'Toole, Nóirín Hayes, and Ann Marie Halpenny
3 Weaving Ecologies for Learning: Engaging Imagination in Place-based Education
Gillian Judson
4 Learning Ecologies: Liminal States and Student Transformation
Maggi Savin-Baden
5 Sustainability-oriented Ecologies of Learning: A Response to Systemic Global Dysfunction
Arjen E.J. Wals
PART 2 Advancing Ecologies for Learning and Practice in Higher Education
6 Ecologies for Learning and Practice in Higher Education Ecosystems
Norman Jackson
7 Ecological Thinking about Education Strategy in Universities
Peter Goodyear and Robert A. Ellis
8 Education and Innovation Ecotones
Ann Pendleton-Jullian
9 Ecosystem Empowerment: Unlocking Human Potential Through Value Creation
Sasha Barab, Anna Arici, Earl Aguilera, and Kathryn Dutchin
10 Building Doctoral Ecologies and Ecological Curricula: Sprawling Spaces of Learning in Researcher Education
Søren S.E. Bengtsen
PART 3 Ecologies for Learning and Practice in the World
11 Learning Ecologies at Work
Karen Evans
12 From Learning Ecologies to Ecologies for Creative Practice
Norman Jackson
13 Learning in the Cat’s Cradle: Weaving Learning Ecologies in the City
Keri Facer, Magdalena Buchczyk, Liz Bishop, Helen Bolton, Zehra Haq, Jackie Gilbert, Gideon Thomas, Jessica Tomico, and Xiujuan Wang
14 Society as a Learning Ecology: Glimpsed and Now Disappearing?
Ronald Barnett
Epilogue : Practice seldom makes perfect but …
Ronald Barnett and Norman Jackson
Index
