Lesson 2.3 Flashcards
“The capacity to see oneself, one’s identity and traditions, as simultaneously part of both the problem and the possibility of democratic life.’
Reflexive Imagination
knowledge of the history of [human ecology] is not a luxury*
• “It is, rather a
Necessity
and our survival as a profession depends on our ability to
Preserve and interpret that history
From the very beginning, Human Ecology was call to action
Human Ecology Story
interrelationships between humans, their cultures and their ecosystems
Human Ecology
It takes a holistic approach to these interrelated parts to understand them as parts of a?
Single complex interacting system
Three arrangements
Sustainable, just, and ethical
Human Ecology borrows from various fields and other ways of knowing but is not bounded by any
Transdisciplinary
female graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
She was a chemist
First to use the word human ecology. She
originally intended to use the term “ecology” for her new field.
Ellen Swallow Richards
Nutrition was a concern to early human ecologists
- New modes of consuming food
Control of food preparation shifted
from private to public domain
Concern about nutrition
Emergence of new problems with new lifestyles
to benefit themselves and their families, and not merely the industries that would profit from the sale of the new modes of consumption”
She was determined that the people who adopted the “new normal”
Beyond productionist paradigm. Concern was
Human welfare and social justice
the science of the conditions of the health and well-being of everyday human life.”the foundation of the home economics movement
Lake Placid Conference
Doomed to fail as ecology was used in the British Medical Journal as
Oekology
History of the word human ecology
- Focus given instead on domestic science
Home Economics was born
It would take half a century before the ecology side would re-emerge with human ecology
knowledge is produced between, across, beyond and outside academic disciplines
Transdisciplinary Approach
What is the nature of reality?
Ontology
What is the nature of knowledge?
Epistemology
Paradigmatic: How do we build knowledge?
Methodology
What are the values underpinning the inquiry?
Axiology
Multiple Levels of Reality and the Hidden Third (TD Ontology) used with permission from Basarab Nicolescu as adopted in Sue McGregor
Transdisciplinary Axiology
Combines separate perspectives under a theme.
Multidisciplinary
Combines separate perspectives through the development of connections between them.
Interdisciplinary
Combines separate perspectives across academic and other sectors
(e.g., government agencies, industry, organizations, etc.) through the development of connections between them to generate research that is informed by stakeholders.
Transdisciplinary