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By introducing the reader to the nature of learning ecologies - recognising how learners consider themselves, their personal development and their learning spaces - this book outlines the history of the concept and locates it within the context of the contemporary world.
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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
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Society as a Learning Ecology: Glimpsed and Now Disappearing?Ronald Barnett
Epilogue : Practice seldom makes perfect but ...
Ronald Barnett and Norman Jackson
Index
About the author
Ronald Barnett is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education, University College London, Institute of Education.
Norman Jackson is Emeritus Professor, University of Surrey, and Founder of Lifewide Education.
Summary
By introducing the reader to the nature of learning ecologies - recognising how learners consider themselves, their personal development and their learning spaces - this book outlines the history of the concept and locates it within the context of the contemporary world.
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Ecologies for Learning and Practice is an amazing book—both eye opening and optimistic. Its subtitle: Emerging Ideas, Sightings, and Possibilities precisely captures its intent and content!…The writers expand our own imagination of new approaches to learning, to new institutional architectures for learning in a white-water world…We should congratulate [the editors] for assembling such a provocative collection of authors that helps unpack how learning can be reconstituted in an ever-changing world.
–John Seely Brown, Former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corp and head of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Advisor to the Provost, University of Southern California, USA
