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pluriversity

pluriversity noun: 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.

Noun (1)

pluriversity (plural pluriversities)

  1. 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
    • 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.1989, David Ray Griffin, William A. Beardslee, Joe Holland, Varieties of Postmodern Theology, →ISBN, page 5
  2. 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
    • For that we need instead of a university, a pluriversity. A pluriversity has the responsibility of educating future generations to live not only in pluri-national states, as has been declared, for example, in the constitutions of Bolivia and Ecuador, but also in a pluri-spistemic and...2012, Kathryn L. Kleypas, James I. McDougall, The American-style University at Large, →ISBN, page 4

Noun (2)

pluriversity (plural pluriversities)

  1. 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
    • To distance himself from the eurocentric concept of modernity, he introduced the concept of "transmodernity," explaining: "A future transmodern culture [...] assumes that the positive moments of modernity (as evaluated through criteria distinct from the perspective of other ancient cultures)[,]...2013, Julian Go, Postcolonial Sociology, →ISBN, page 179
    Synonyms:
    pluriversality

Examples of pluriversity in a sentence

  • 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.2006, Robert A. Rhoads, Carlos Alberto Torres, The University, State, and Market, →ISBN, page 74:
  • Should and could we move from a university to the pluriversity?2006, Angarai Venkataraman Balasubramanian, T. D. Nirmala Devi, Traditional knowledge systems of India and Sri Lanka:
  • For that we need instead of a university, a pluriversity.2012, Kathryn L. Kleypas, James I. McDougall, The American-style University at Large, →ISBN, page 4:
  • I propose an idea of pluriversity, a pluriversity for resilience and abundance.2016, Todd LeVasseur, Pramod Parajuli, Norman Wirzba, Religion and Sustainable Agriculture, →ISBN:

Synonyms of pluriversity

Forms of pluriversity

pluralpluriversities

Origin of pluriversity

Blend of pluriverse + university.

From pluriverse + -ity.

Questions about pluriversity

What does pluriversity mean?
Pluriversity means 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.
How do you use pluriversity in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is pluriversity?
Pluriversity is a noun.
What is the plural of pluriversity?
The plural of pluriversity is pluriversities.

Words near pluriversity in the dictionary

  1. pluriversal
  2. pluriversalities
  3. pluriversality
  4. pluriverse
  5. pluriversities
  6. pluriversity
  7. plurivocalic
  8. plurivoltine
  9. plurivoltinism
  10. plurivorous
  11. plurivory

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