pluriversities

pluriversities is the plural of pluriversity.

Meaning of pluriversity

pluriversity (plural pluriversities)

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.
- 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.1978, International Cultural Foundation, The search for absolute values in a changing world, →ISBN
A multicultural learning environment where one learns from multiple sources of knowledge, such as the scientific, the traditional, and the spiritual.
- Should and could we move from a university to the pluriversity? Was this to be a strictly secular or non-secular institution? Who would benefit from the pluriversity, with its new forms of knowledge? Was TK only to be the object of study in a pluriversty as it is in universities or also a subject...2006, Angarai Venkataraman Balasubramanian, T. D. Nirmala Devi, Traditional knowledge systems of India and Sri Lanka

pluriversity (plural pluriversities)

Synonym of pluriversality.
- My defense of a universality of social justice (and socialism) for all—creating the conditions of possibility for freedom from necessity for all—in no way rejects the pluriversity of knowledges.2009, S. Macrine, P. McLaren, D. Hill, Revolutionizing Pedagogy, →ISBN
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pluriversality

What is pluriversities the plural of?: Pluriversities is the plural of pluriversity.

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