Educating for Human, Community, and Ecological Flourishing: Enabling Posthuman Bildung-Capabilities through Pedagogies of Inquiry (Routledge Research in Education)

In a world of escalating social and ecological challenges, how can universities promote human, community, and ecological flourishing?This book sketches an answer to this question, calling for the institutional implementation of transformative “pedagogies of inquiry.”The author offers an innovative posthuman reframing of Bildung and the modernist capabilities approach, introducing the concept of "Bildung capabilities." Through critical inquiry into timely and complex social and ecological issues-acknowledging diverse knowledge traditions and engaging in open dialogue across disciplinary and cultural perspectives-students come to appreciate the intersectionality of human, community, and ecological flourishing.This deep transformative inquiry enables the development of nine vital capabilities for navigating global challenges: building alliances; valuing relationships with the more than human; openness to different and contradictory viewpoints, including on nature and humans in nature; com