Here are student summaries of fall 2024 MCJD dialogical surveys with the Street Roots community. Click on any title for details, then return to see all titles.
Learning Across Generations
Event: Street RootsInterviewer: Mia
Whom did you interview?
I interacted with two women named Tina and Brunwick. Tina is in her 40’s and Brunwick is in her 60’s. Both were homeless for a few years, but are now housed and both are ambassadors for the organization.
How did your EcoTypes and SDG priorities compare?We all had a small green steps ecotype and integral beliefs on knowledge. We found that most of the time our beliefs were somewhere in the middle and that sometimes what we believed wasn’t on the survey at all. Brunwick believed that humans place in nature is only to do enough to correct it and then leave it alone for it to do its thing and Tina had similar views that nature is beautiful and cannot be recreated.
What larger MCJD lessons did you learn?I biggest lesson I drew was that the perspectives coming from a dialogue between people of 3 different generations from 3 entirely different backgrounds had a lot of similarities and some slight differences. By this I mean that we all had the same ecotype, we all believed that solutions come through using many different solutions, and that small change must be made so that we aren’t shocking both people and the environment. The small differences were in the ways we articulated our beliefs and the way we came to care about them. We all have vastly different life experiences but have reached some of the same perspectives.