Is a “Social Ecology” Possible? Notes for a Story to be Written

Can assumed knowledges exist in a changing society? This article will move from Margaret Mead's thought to explore the opportunity of an ecological approach to all evolutive systems, that is single, social, or relating to context systems. Although this approach, called ecology of relations or social ecology, moves from classical development models it is open to new developments perspective and to co-evolutive perspective to cooperation. The article will focus on relation networks, especially cultural and educational networks, which characterize co-adaptive relation between living systems (but also co-living meant as living with the others systems) and living contexts in which everyone is, at the same time, both an in development system (that involves individual processes) and an of development system (that involves interpersonal processes). © 2012 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.