PATHWAYS TO A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: APRIL- SEPTEMBER 2023
Once a year Lifewide Education explores an aspect of lifelong learning. In April we begin a new inquiry to explore how we might learn to live in ways that help nature and the environment and lead to a more sustainable future. We are living in our future's past and it is not too late to do something to help create a better future. For further information please visit our Pathways web page
This is an open process and we welcome anyone with an interest who is willing to share their experiences and perspectives. Read my pathways blog in my Garden Notes Blog.
Once a year Lifewide Education explores an aspect of lifelong learning. In April we begin a new inquiry to explore how we might learn to live in ways that help nature and the environment and lead to a more sustainable future. We are living in our future's past and it is not too late to do something to help create a better future. For further information please visit our Pathways web page
This is an open process and we welcome anyone with an interest who is willing to share their experiences and perspectives. Read my pathways blog in my Garden Notes Blog.
Welcome
The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard once said 'Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards'. Steve Jobs expressed the same idea in a different way 'you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.' This website helps me look back on my life, capture moments from the present and look forward to the future. It helps me understand my own lifelong and lifewide learning and how I develop my ecologies for learning, developing, achieving and creating. I record my thoughts in three blogs scraps of life blog #creativeHE blog Garden Notes I maintain profiles on three professional social networking sites 
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Lifewide Learning
Eduard Lindeman writing over 80 years ago said, 'the whole of life is learning therefore education can have no ending'. This is what I believe too. Lifewide Education
I founded the Lifewide Education network in 2011 to help universities, colleges and schools develop their own approaches to supporting these forms of learning and personal development. The foundation for this enterprise is based on the research and practical development undertaken at the University of Surrey and published in Learning for a Complex World: a lifewide concept of learning, education and personal development 
-Creative Academic
I have a long standing interest and involvement in encouraging higher education to support students' creative development as well as their academic development. In January 2015 I formed Creative Academic to support universities and teachers who want to enable learners to use and develop their creativity. 
Chalk Mountain
Chalk Mountain helps people communicate in interesting, engaging and creative ways. We produce and publish magazines, books and other digital media for the higher education sector. http://www.chalkmountain.co.uk/ |
Speaker
I am an experienced and well respected speaker and have given many talks in the UK and overseas on themes like, 'Creativity in Higher Education', 'Lifewide Learning & Education', 'The Ecology of Learning and Development' and 'Change and Innovation in Universities'.
Example talks, seminars, workshops 
Facilitator
I enjoy designing and facilitating processes that rengage people and enable them to share their understandings and imaginations to co-create ideas and solutions to the complex challenges they face. I enjoy teaming up with illustrators to integrate graphic facilitation into group working processes. Writing, Editing
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RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS
Keynote speaker at the International Conference Lillehammer Lifelong Learning ICDE Conference, 15-17 February 2023, TALK Speaker/Facilitator Harvard Learning Innovations Lab Learning Ecologies Inquiry http://www.pz.harvard.edu/resources/what-is-lila Visit my Learning Eeologies website http://www.learningecologies.uk/ White Paper Contribution to UNESCO Futures of Education
Jackson, N.J. (2022) Steps To An Ecology of Lifelong-Lifewide Learning for Sustainable, Regenerative Futures In K. Evans, Lee, W.O. Markowitsch, J. & Zukas M. (Eds) Third International Handbook of Lifelong Learning Springer https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-67930-9_15-1 Most recent books
Second edition October 2019
#creativeHE blog
my blog for the open learning platform #LTHEchat Creativity in Development Curated conversation -over 500 posts on STORIFY My reflections Lifewide Magazine 25 issues to date http://www.lifewidemagazine.co.uk/ Creative Academic Magazine 22 Issues to date http://www.creativeacademic.uk/magazine.html #CreativeHE LINKED IN LIFEWIDE EDUCATION & LEARNING EXCHANGE CREATIVE ACADEMIC |
