In search of human ecology: memories, insights, and wider points of view (a personal journey)
This article is a narrative memoir of the author’s personal engagement with the intellectual and institutional history of human ecology. Written in essay style, it explores a blend of themes and approaches based on a lifetime of interdisciplinary inquiry. In the initial section, the author chronicle...
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| description | This article is a narrative memoir of the author’s personal engagement with the intellectual and institutional history of human ecology. Written in essay style, it explores a blend of themes and approaches based on a lifetime of interdisciplinary inquiry. In the initial section, the author chronicles his participation in the founding, growth, and influence of College of the Atlantic - a higher education institution fully dedicated to a non-departmentalized, interdisciplinary curriculum in human ecology. The narrative continues with an overview of the launching and international networking of the Society for Human Ecology (SHE) and related activities with other human ecology professional associations worldwide. The paper then takes a retrospective turn to focus on the growth and changes of higher education institutions in recent centuries, including the creation of discipline-based specialization within the ‘research university’, and the opportunities and obstacles for ecologically oriented interdisciplinarity. A brief overview of mono-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary perspectives within the history of human ecology along this timeline is also noted. Taken together, it is hoped this integration of personal and interpersonal experiences - in combination with academic and historical resources - provides a meaningful interpretation of the origins and aims of human ecology. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-765ad55df04d406aa2a2bbde44626a452025-08-20T03:50:48ZengCICS.NOVA - Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, Universidade Nova de LisboaForum Sociológico0872-83802182-74272024-06-01451928https://doi.org/10.4000/130utIn search of human ecology: memories, insights, and wider points of view (a personal journey)Richard J. Borden0College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USAThis article is a narrative memoir of the author’s personal engagement with the intellectual and institutional history of human ecology. Written in essay style, it explores a blend of themes and approaches based on a lifetime of interdisciplinary inquiry. In the initial section, the author chronicles his participation in the founding, growth, and influence of College of the Atlantic - a higher education institution fully dedicated to a non-departmentalized, interdisciplinary curriculum in human ecology. The narrative continues with an overview of the launching and international networking of the Society for Human Ecology (SHE) and related activities with other human ecology professional associations worldwide. The paper then takes a retrospective turn to focus on the growth and changes of higher education institutions in recent centuries, including the creation of discipline-based specialization within the ‘research university’, and the opportunities and obstacles for ecologically oriented interdisciplinarity. A brief overview of mono-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary perspectives within the history of human ecology along this timeline is also noted. Taken together, it is hoped this integration of personal and interpersonal experiences - in combination with academic and historical resources - provides a meaningful interpretation of the origins and aims of human ecology.https://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0872-83802024000200019&lng=pt&nrm=isohuman ecologyinternational networkingrise of universitiesinterdisciplinarity |
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| title | In search of human ecology: memories, insights, and wider points of view (a personal journey) |
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| topic | human ecology international networking rise of universities interdisciplinarity |
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