Platform as Infoniche
Introduce the Infoniche framework for understanding the structure of Developmental Platform.
The last article introduced a new concept Developmental Platform for interdisciplinary developmental study. It is defined as a social environment which could strongly support adult development in various ways. I consider it as an intermediate concept which aims to connect theory and practice.
For practice, the Development Platform is the core of the Platform-for-Development framework. For theory, the Development Platform offers a creative space for testing my theoretical project: the Ecological Practice approach.
This article will review several theoretical ideas on the environment of adult development and adopt the Ecological Practice approach for understanding Developmental Platform. In particular, I shall introduce the Infoniche framework to conceptualize the structure of Developmental Platform.
The outcome is a three-level model which includes Zone (micro level), Project (mezzo level), and Platform-ba (macro level). Furthermore, I introduce the Ecological Offer framework for the Zone level analysis. I also review some ideas about Project and Platform-ba from previous articles.
