Ecologies for Learning and Practice : Emerging Ideas, Sightings, and Possibilities (Hardcover)

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; INTRODUCTION1 Steps to Ecologies for Learning and Practice; PART 1 Towards Ecologies for Learning and Practice; 2 Animating Systems: The Ecological Value of Bronfenbrenner’s Bio-ecological Model of Development; 3 Weaving Ecologies for Learning: Engaging Imagination in Place-based Education; 4 Learning Ecologies: Liminal States and Student Transformation; 5 Sustainability-oriented Ecologies of Learning: A Response to Systemic Global Dysfunction; PART 2 Ecologies for Learning and Practice in Higher Education; 6 Ecologies for Learning and Practice in Higher Education Ecosystems; 7 Ecological Thinking about Education Strategy in Universities; 8 Education and Innovation Ecotones; 9 Ecosystem Empowerment: Unlocking Human Potential Through Value Creation; 10 Building Doctoral Ecologies and Ecological Curricula: Sprawling Spaces of Learning in Researcher Education; PART 3 Ecologies for Learning and Practice in the World; 11 Learning Ecologies at Work; 12 From Learning Ecologies to Ecologies for Creative Practice; 13 Learning in the Cat’s Cradle: Weaving Learning Ecologies in the City; 14 Society as a Learning Ecology: Glimpsed and Now Disappearing?; Epilogue : Practice seldom makes perfect but …; Index