Description: Shows how ecological models of change can be applied to education.
Brief description: Andrew Martin is a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a Presidential Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado in Boulder. His research spans orders of magnitude of biological organization, from microbes that cause infectious diseases to communities of species in terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments, to the formation and dynamics of social networks in the classroom.
Review Quotes:
"This book is a novel perspective on understanding teaching and learning in higher education through the lens of ecological frameworks on emergence. The author draws from many science educators and ecologists. He also notes some voices from education and higher education scholarship. The book builds on itself to present the perspectives of how ecological frameworks, particularly in that of emergence, should be considered heavily in higher education structures and systems in relation to student learning." -- Trisha Teig, Higher Education and Leadership Studies, University of Denver