Grundannahmen einer humanökologischen Perspektive — Mit einigen Konkretisierungen zu Forschungsmöglichkeiten in der Erziehungswissenschaft

Abstract

From the multiplicity and variety of research fields in human ecology, the International Organization of Human Ecology (I O H E 1981) has started a systematic list of major research topics, one of which is the ecology of childhood. Psychologists, sociologists and educationalists have been dealing with ecological socialisation research concerning (early) childhood for a long time. In the meantime, the deficits and the onesideness of ecological socialization research have appeared clearly. The problems of socialization research must be seen in its object orientation and in the neglect of the aspect of meaning by analyzing environmental circumstances. Therefore it is our concern, to formulate a general ecological perspective that is able to avoid the theoretical onesideness and from which new and emirically fruitful themes and questions can be generated. Starting from basis of (philosophical) anthropology concerning the man-environment-relationship, we try to formulate six fundamental assumptions: 1. the double-constituency of human ecologists; 2. human ecologies as action-mediated mind-object-units; 3. human ecologies as totalities of material, personal, social and cultural elements; 4. human ecologies as results of the self-constituted realization of “world”; 5. the multi-perspectivity of human ecologies and 6. the spatiotemporal localization of human ecologies. With reference to these assumptions, the relevance and plausibility of the proposed human-ecological changes in ecology, as for example the start of schooling in early childhood.