Pluriversity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pluriversity is a noun meaning Synonym of pluriversality.
Meaning
Synonym of pluriversality.
More Meanings
- A university, viewed as an institution of tertiary education that is segmented into specialties which do not interact, especially specialties that focus on applications for external organizations.
- A multicultural learning environment where one learns from multiple sources of knowledge, such as the scientific, the traditional, and the spiritual.
Example Sentences
This inquiry is carried on most effectively through academic specialties. They create the modern pluriversity, and in that pluriversity the unity of knowledge is lost.
Besides these features, Rutler looks forward to a new union of religion and politics, and of theology and science, and thereby to a transformation of the pluriversity back into a university.
Contrary to the university knowledge described in the preceding paragraph, pluriversity knowledge is a contextual knowledge insofar as the organizing principle of its construction is its application.
My rather upbeat proposal to create a resilient and abundant food system is predicated upon the human species having the capacity to learn. But what kind of learning is required? I propose an idea of pluriversity, a pluriversity for resilience and abundance.
Word Forms
- pluriversities
Synonyms for pluriversity
Depending on context, synonyms include pluriversality.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include subcollege, pluripresence, school, subspecialism, subspecialty, subspecialist.
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