Lesson 2.3

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“The capacity to see oneself, one’s identity and traditions, as simultaneously part of both the problem and the possibility of democratic life.’

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Reflexive Imagination

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knowledge of the history of [human ecology] is not a luxury*
• “It is, rather a

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Necessity

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and our survival as a profession depends on our ability to

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Preserve and interpret that history

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From the very beginning, Human Ecology was call to action

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Human Ecology Story

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interrelationships between humans, their cultures and their ecosystems

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Human Ecology

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It takes a holistic approach to these interrelated parts to understand them as parts of a?

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Single complex interacting system

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Three arrangements

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Sustainable, just, and ethical

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Human Ecology borrows from various fields and other ways of knowing but is not bounded by any

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Transdisciplinary

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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.

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Ellen Swallow Richards

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Nutrition was a concern to early human ecologists

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• 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

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to benefit themselves and their families, and not merely the industries that would profit from the sale of the new modes of consumption”

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She was determined that the people who adopted the “new normal”

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Beyond productionist paradigm. Concern was

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Human welfare and social justice

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the science of the conditions of the health and well-being of everyday human life.”the foundation of the home economics movement

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Lake Placid Conference

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Doomed to fail as ecology was used in the British Medical Journal as

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Oekology

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History of the word human ecology

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• 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

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knowledge is produced between, across, beyond and outside academic disciplines

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Transdisciplinary Approach

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What is the nature of reality?

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Ontology

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What is the nature of knowledge?

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Epistemology

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Paradigmatic: How do we build knowledge?

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Methodology

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What are the values underpinning the inquiry?

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Axiology

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Multiple Levels of Reality and the Hidden Third (TD Ontology) used with permission from Basarab Nicolescu as adopted in Sue McGregor

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Transdisciplinary Axiology

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Combines separate perspectives under a theme.

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Multidisciplinary

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Combines separate perspectives through the development of connections between them.

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Interdisciplinary

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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.

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Transdisciplinary

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Patient has an active role in shaping medical strategy. Not just being treated as a source of infor.; Its lenses facilitattes what?

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Co-creation

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Transdisciplinary approach allows what engagement?

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Allows for genuine stakeholder engagement beyond merely seeing communities as sources of data or units of analysis

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Communities in themselves are what?

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Legitimate producers of knowledge

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Human ecological perspective lends to local planners and communities an eye to see connections between opportunities and issues to guide them in solving complex and wicked problems.

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Implications

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At the core of Human ecology research and practice is the concern for ?

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Ethics; Human Ecology is also concerned with the social dimensions of current or proposed alternative arrangements, asking is it fair? is it just? is it ethical? These ethical questions extend at least to other humans, including, arguably, future generations. Some would extend them to other species”

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What you see is not what it really is,”

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Need to be mindful of undercurrents

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How do you define a super wicked problem?

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wicked problem is a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize. It refers to an idea or problem that cannot be fixed, where there is no single solution to the problem; and “wicked” denotes resistance to resolution, rather than evil.

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Lifelong learning mantra

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“Not so easy that we can be complacent, not so hard that it could break us”

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Science-based vs. science-informed

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Reality is that not all science are science-based interest and we should recognize that science is just only one basis for a collective decision;
● Science-based means policies and collective decisions are taken by experts alone.
● However, collective action in a democracy requires deliberation.
● “Science-informed” means science has to be deliberated and accepted by communities, who will be directly affected by it.

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Science is never neutral

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Once the evidence is clear; science will never be neutral

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intervention intended to modify organizational functioning for a more favorable outcome.

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Pre-meditated, agent-facilitated