PATHWAYS TO A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
In the last few years I have become interested in how we might create a life that is more in tune with the needs of the Earth that recognises the need for humanity to transition towards an ecological civilisation underpinned by The Earth Charter. I believe that
learning and practice are lifelong-lifewide ecological phenomenon and I will be sharing this perspective at the Re-imagining Education for Ecological Civilisations Conference in April 2024. My particular interest and community voluntary work is in helping nature regenerate and increase biodiversity and resilience. You can read about my adventures with nature in my Garden Notes Blog.
In the last few years I have become interested in how we might create a life that is more in tune with the needs of the Earth that recognises the need for humanity to transition towards an ecological civilisation underpinned by The Earth Charter. I believe that
learning and practice are lifelong-lifewide ecological phenomenon and I will be sharing this perspective at the Re-imagining Education for Ecological Civilisations Conference in April 2024. My particular interest and community voluntary work is in helping nature regenerate and increase biodiversity and resilience. You can read about my adventures with nature 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. 
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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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Professional Services
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RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS
Speaker Re-imagining Education for Ecological Civilisations Conference Orlando April 2024 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 Ecologies 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
Lifewide Magazine 27 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 |
