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- Hello, and welcome to

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the last class

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in HDFS 60.

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And I'd just like to
introduce this last lecture

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with a few comments before you watch it.

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We've studied develecology

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and we've talked about
it in many different ways

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and applied it to many
different situations,

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particularly to families
and their development,

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the transitions that families go through.

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I would just like to remind you

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that Bronfenbrenner's
scheme, his framework,

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is very useful for understanding

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all kinds of human situations.

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And you can use it to ask questions

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of people that are interested in.

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It makes a nice framework to,

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you don't have to use the terms,

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but asking people about their lives

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in a way that gives you
information about their ecosystem

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and their development in that ecosystem

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is always helpful, I think.

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You can apply it to
understanding your family

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and many of you have done
that through this semester.

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Many of you will work with
families in your professions.

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You'll be in the helping professions.

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You'll be working with
families or members of families

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and I think you'll find
the framework useful

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in whatever work you do.

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And I would welcome you
getting in touch with me later

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and telling me uses that you have found

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for develecology, how you
found it to be useful.

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It is also an interesting
framework for using

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to think about people
that you're friends with,

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people you're dating.

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The kind of information
you will get from people

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if you ask the right
questions will help you

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understand how they view their ecosystems

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and you'll be able to spot similarities

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to your own views and differences.

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Differences that might be important

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in understanding the way
you get along with people

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or the difficulties that
you have with people

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when you don't get along.

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It will be helpful for you to remember

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that people are always
developing and they're adapting

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to the ecosystems they're
in, as they do that adapting.

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So the developmental viewpoint

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that you carry with you will be important

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in all of your work

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because if you don't have that,

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you may not realize
that people will develop

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and you can help them develop.

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And often asking questions suggests

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to people more about
how they might develop

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than telling them what you
think they ought to do.

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So people need to think
about their situation

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and you can help them do that

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by the questions you ask.

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The framework is also very useful

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if you're working in
a program with people,

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if your program is supposed
to be helping people.

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The framework can help
you analyze the features,

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the activities, the roles that
are available in the program,

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the situation that you're working in,

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and help you design ways to change it

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so that it will help people more.

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Often having a develecological perspective

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which tells you what sorts of things,

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what sorts of experiences help develop,

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help people develop,

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can help you think about the
changes that you could make

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in a program to make it help
people more than it does.

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I hope you find it useful.

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I also hope you will find it useful

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in thinking about your own development

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and the ecosystems that
you have been part of.

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The video for today is
one that I normally show

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in the next course, the
Social Context of Development,

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but I wanted you to have a chance

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to see how I use it autobiographically

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to think about how I got to be who I am.

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And, in this case, what it
was like in my ecosystem,

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what features of my ecosystem
as I was growing up,

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to be a white guy in a
small white community

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in the Midwest,

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in a society

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that has pervasive, systemic,
and personal racism.

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If we are going to tackle
racism in our society,

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we all will benefit by
looking at our own backgrounds

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and seeing what in our experience
supported the development

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of a racist view of other people

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and what features in the ecosystem
might have prevented that

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or hindered that
development for some of us.

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In my case, in the lecture
you're about to see,

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I look at my childhood and adolescence

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and at the experiences

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that have helped me realize
the racism that I grew up with,

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which is part of the
ecosystem that I grew up in.

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The experiences that
helped me develop, slowly,

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a different view.

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And now the experiences
that have helped me commit

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to being an anti-racist,
not just a non-racist,

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but to actually work to reduce
racism in my own behavior,

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in my own settings,

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and in the way I help
other people do that.

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So I hope you find this interesting.

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I will welcome your comments on it,

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your questions about it, and stay safe.