BIBFRAME Work

Title

Realising the ecological university

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Barnett, Ronald, 1947- (author )

Subject

• Universities and colleges--Aims and objectives (LCSH)
• Postmodernism and education (LCSH)
• Education, Higher--Philosophy (LCSH)
• Social ecology (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• LCC: LB2322.2 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
• DDC: 378.001 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"This book charts the university's entanglement with eight mega-ecosystems - knowledge, learning, persons, social institutions, culture, the economy, the polity and nature - and offers principles through which universities can imaginatively explore possibilities. This book sets out, in broad terms, what it is to realise the idea of the ecological university. Barnett draws together relevant contemporary scholarship from philosophy, social theory, comparative higher education, ethics, and theology. He advances thinking in each of the ecosystems the book looks at and develops a particular form of the philosophy of higher education, drawing on examples to bring the whole text to life"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The university in an age of ecology -- Part I: Vital considerations -- The university: being ecological -- Theory and practice: yes, but ... -- Part II: The eight ecosystems -- Four ecosystems (especially) of the interior -- Knowledge -- Learning -- Individuals -- Culture -- Interlude: The argument crystalised - an interim statement -- Four ecosystems (especially) of the exterior -- Society -- Economy -- Polity -- Nature -- Part III: Realizing the ecological university -- Pulling it all together: a matter of spirit -- Towards ecological agency: unflagging efforts -- Manifesto -- Endnote: A kind of revolution.

Authorized Access Point

Barnett, Ronald, 1947-. Realising the ecological university

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• Date: 2026-09-11T22:56:30.728110+00:00
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