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.

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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