Realizing the Ecological University: Eight Ecosystems, Their Antagonisms and a Manifesto

The ecological university recognizes its interconnectedness with the world and takes responsibility for its role in addressing global challenges. The book explores the university's entanglements with eight ecosystems and identifies ways to repair them. It offers broad principles for realizing the ecological university in each ecosystem and concludes with a compelling manifesto.

Format: Hardback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 19 September 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The ecological university recognizes the profound interconnectedness of the world and its challenges, and takes responsibility for its role in addressing these difficulties. To achieve this, the university engages with eight ecosystems: knowledge, learning, persons, social institutions, culture, the economy, the polity, and nature. The book identifies ways in which each of these ecosystems is impaired and suggests ways in which universities can contribute to their repair. It also outlines broad principles for realizing the ecological university in each of these ecosystems. Drawing on philosophy, social theory, comparative higher education, and ethics, Ronald Barnett offers a unique perspective on higher education that is realist, societal, critical, worldly, and Earthly. The text is engaging and informative, with numerous examples from both real-world and fictional contexts. The concluding Manifesto provides a powerful summary of the book's main arguments and themes.

Weight: 608g
Dimension: 164 x 243 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350450868