Ecologies for Learning and Practice

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.

• List of figuresList of tablesList of contributors1 Introduction: Steps to Ecologies for Learning and PracticeNorman Jackson and Ronald BarnettPART 1 Towards Ecologies for Learning and Practice2 Animating Systems: The Ecological Value of Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Model of DevelopmentLeah O'Toole, Nóirín Hayes, and Ann Marie Halpenny3 Weaving Ecologies for Learning: Engaging Imagination in Place-based EducationGillian Judson4 Learning Ecologies: Liminal States and Student Transformation Maggi Savin-Baden5 Sustainability-oriented Ecologies of Learning: A Response to Systemic Global DysfunctionArjen E.J. WalsPART 2 Advancing Ecologies for Learning and Practice in Higher Education6 Ecologies for Learning and Practice in Higher Education EcosystemsNorman Jackson 7 Ecological Thinking about Education Strategy in Universities Peter Goodyear and Robert A. Ellis 8 Education and Innovation EcotonesAnn Pendleton-Jullian9 Ecosystem Empowerment: Unlocking Human Potential Through Value CreationSasha Barab, Anna Arici, Earl Aguilera, and Kathryn Dutchin 10 Building Doctoral Ecologies and Ecological Curricula: Sprawling Spaces of Learning in Researcher EducationSøren S.E. BengtsenPART 3 Ecologies for Learning and Practice in the World11 Learning Ecologies at WorkKaren Evans12 From Learning Ecologies to Ecologies for Creative PracticeNorman Jackson13 Learning in the Cat’s Cradle: Weaving Learning Ecologies in the CityKeri 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 BarnettEpilogue : Practice seldom makes perfect but …Ronald Barnett and Norman JacksonIndex

Ecologies for Learning and Practice is an amazing book – both eye opening and optimistic. It’s 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