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antagonism
Author_Ronald Barnett
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conflict
criticality
critique
democracy (and epistemic democracy)
discernment
ecology
ecosystem
emergence
entanglement
epistemic justice
epistemology
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fragmentation
imagination and trans-disciplinarity
impairment
inspiration
instrumentalism
interests
learning
motion
Nature
ontology
possibilities
practice(s)
public intellectual
responsibility
society
spirit
structure(s)
student(s)
universality
university
world
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- ISBN 9781350450875
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 154 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 19 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The ecological university takes its interconnectedness with the world seriously. This is challenging, for the world is in difficulty and is shot through with antagonism. The university is partly culpable for those difficulties and so has responsibilities towards the world. Realizing the Ecological University spells out this thesis by charting the university’s entanglements with eight ecosystems – knowledge, learning, persons, social institutions, culture, the economy, the polity and nature. The book identifies ways in which each of the eight ecosystems is impaired and points to possibilities through which universities can help in repairing those ecosystems. This book also sets out broad principles in helping to realize the ecological university in each of the eight ecosystems. Wearing his scholarship lightly, Ronald Barnett draws widely from philosophy, social theory, comparative higher education and ethics, and advances a particular form of the philosophy of higher education, at once realist, societal, critical, worldly and Earthly. Written with wit and lots of examples – actual and fictional – the text has a compelling vibrancy, made manifest in its concluding Manifesto.
Ronald Barnett is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. He is the President of the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society.
