Ecological Lens
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Ecological LensSandy Week EDRS 753
The branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms…
Ecology
Predator vs. Prey – regulation of numbers in species
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Symbiosis - interaction between two different organisms usually to the advantage of each
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Competition for resources Examples…
Diversity
Walsh, W. B., (1936)Actual fit between an individual's or collective group's needs, aspirations, and capacities and the qualities and operations of their social and physical environments within particular cultural and historical contexts. • Level of fit• Adaptedness• Perceived level of fit
Person:Environment
Urie Bronfenbrenner (1979)Ecological systems theory is an approach to study of human development that consists of the “scientific study of the progressive, mutual accommodation, throughout the life course, between an active, growing human being, and the changing properties of the immediate settings in which the developing person lives, as this process is affected by the relations between these settings, and by the larger contexts in which the settings are embedded”
Ecology of Human Development
Ehrenreich, H., Reeves, P. M., Corley, S., & Orpinas, P. (2012)With Graduation in Sight: Perceptions of High- and Low-Aggression Students of the Journey to High School Completion• Used
Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model & identified within each level of the ecological model (micro-, meso-, exo-, and macrosystems
Example Article
The transactional relationship of the social & physical environment
Campus Climate
Instead of linear thinking…Keiny, S. (2002) Ecological Thinking: A new approach to educational change (book)A community of learners which are autonomous and self-organizing
Example Book
Instead of operant conditioning…Uses a developmental or social cognitive view
Ecological Learning TheoryGraham Davey (1989)
Brown, E. L., Kanny, M. A., Johnson B. (2014)“I Am Who I Am Because of Here!”School Settings as a Mechanism of Change in Establishing High-Risk Adolescents’ Academic Identities (article)• The study included “multiple perspectives
of various school community members”• The school environment serves as a
mechanism of change in supporting early adolescents’ academic identities
Example Article
Banning, J. (Producer). (2013). Origins. The Campus Ecologist. Retrieved from www.campusecologist.com.
Bronfenbrenner, U., 1917-2005. (1979). The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Brown, E. L., Kanny, M. A., Johnson B., “I am who I am because of here!”: School settings as a mechanism of change in establishing high-risk adolescents’
academic identities. (2014). The Journal of Early Adolescence, 34(2), 178-205. doi:10.1177/0272431613480271
Davey, G. (1989). Ecological learning theory. New York: Routledge.
Ehrenreich, H., Reeves, P. M., Corley, S., & Orpinas, P. (2012). With graduation in sight: Perceptions of high- and low-aggression students of the journey to
high school completion. School Psychology Quarterly, 27(4), 198-209. doi:10.1037/spq0000006
Evans, N. J., Forney, D. S., & Guido-DiBrito, F. (1998). Student development in college: Theory, research, and practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Ḳeni, S. (2002). Ecological thinking: A new approach to educational change. Lanham, Md: University Press of America.
Margalef, R. (1968). Perspectives in ecological theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Mizrahi, T., Davis, L. E., Oxford University Press, & National Association of Social Workers. (2008). Encyclopedia of social work. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Walsh, W. B., 1936, Craik, K. H., & Price, R. H. (2000). Person-environment psychology: New directions and perspectives. Mahwah, N.J: L. Erlbaum.
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