ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|16 pages

Introduction

Steps to ecologies for learning and practice

part 171|2 pages

Towards ecologies for learning and practice

chapter 2|13 pages

Animating Systems

The ecological value of Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model of development

chapter 3|14 pages

Weaving Ecologies for Learning

Engaging imagination in place-based education

chapter 4|15 pages

Learning Ecologies

Liminal states and student transformation

chapter 5|18 pages

Sustainability-Oriented Ecologies of Learning

A response to systemic global dysfunction

part 792|2 pages

Advancing ecologies for learning and practice in higher education

chapter 9|17 pages

Ecosystem Empowerment

Unlocking human potential through value creation

chapter 10|15 pages

Building Doctoral Ecologies and Ecological Curricula

Sprawling spaces for learning in researcher education

part 1613|2 pages

Ecologies for learning and practice in the world

chapter 11|14 pages

Learning Ecologies at Work

chapter 13|18 pages

Learning in the Cat's Cradle

Weaving learning ecologies in the city

chapter 14|12 pages

Society as a Learning Ecology

Glimpsed and now disappearing?

chapter |7 pages

Epilogue

Practice seldom makes perfect but …