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.

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