| Your Name | Dante de Tablan |
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| Email Address | Email hidden; Javascript is required. |
| Cohort Assignment | Americas Hybrid In-Person/Online with Intensive in the Hudson Valley, Spring-Summer 2024 |
| 1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | Generativity: to engage in acts that promote the wellbeing of younger generations as a way of ensuring the long-term survival of the species. |
| 2. What role do you see as yours to play? | Organizer |
| 3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | To improve my organizing skills by broadening my perspectives |
| 4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | Skill-building and implementation while having fun |
| 5. And for professional growth? | Deepen my relationships with others |
| 6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | I acquire research knowledge and mixed-methods analytical skills, continue to learn about the climate emergency and my role in it, and re-evaluate my past to get to where I want to go. |
| 7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | Sociology, social welfare and social work, quantitative analyses, qualitative approaches, architecture, and design are some of the fields of learning that have influenced me. Important thinkers in my life include Emile Durkheim, who developed functionalism, a sociological theory based on the premise that institutions, roles, and norms serve a purpose, all of which are indispensable for the long-term survival of the society. While the term social welfare refers more generally to the well-being of groups and individuals as well as the system of social service delivery, the term social work refers more specifically to the professional practice of delivering these social services. Jane Addams, arguably the “mother” of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. Her work with Hull House in Chicago served as a model for community schools, a strategy for identifying needs and designing interventions for children and families in underserved communities today. I use mixed-method approaches (quantitative and qualitative analyses) to diagnose and understand issues facing our individuals, groups, and communities, while architecture and design inform my aesthetics of the place and process of delivering programs and services. |
| 8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | In my encounters with social problems, I find those affected by them living in conditions that are bereft of beauty. There is elegance in a well-executed quantitative analysis that results in a thorough investigation of a social issue. In addition, we need to transform spaces to contradict the hopelessness that pervades our under-resourced communities today. I would like my epitaph to say, "He created beauty." |
| Date Created | May 5, 2024 |