2020/06/26 by Olivia Bina, Olívia Bina, Lavínia Pereira
Social Sciences · #Higher Education Governance and Development
paper · doi:10.1080/00139157.2020.1764286
As part of an inquiry into interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge production by a European network of scholars and practitioners (2015-2019) we sought to understand the role of universities in the context of Anthropocene and Capitalocene dynamics: how to contribute to transformative change through knowledge and learning. Our paper makes three linked contributions, bridging across two narratives where universities go from being ‘part of the problem’ to contributing to ‘solutions’ to the Anthropo-Capitalocene. We review and map the discourse around the future of universities from a multi-disciplinary perspective; we build an analytical framework that places the future of knowledge and learning in a wider, interdisciplinary perspective, emphasizing the need for inner change and transformative learning; and we present six priorities that deepen and expand the discourse around the future of knowledge, learning and related competences for sustainability.