By introducing the reader to the nature of learning ecologies - recognising how learners consider themselves, their personal development and their learning spaces - this book outlines the history of the concept and locates it within the context of the contemporary world. Ecologies for Learning and Practice is an amazing book-both eye opening and optimistic. Its subtitle: Emerging Ideas, Sightings, and Possibilities precisely captures its intent and content!?The writers expand our own imagination of new approaches to learning, to new institutional architectures for learning in a white-water world?We should congratulate [the editors] for assembling such a provocative collection of authors that helps unpack how learning can be reconstituted in an ever-changing world. -John Seely Brown, Former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corp and head of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Advisor to the Provost, University of Southern California, USA