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1、DepartmentofOccupationalTherapy&OccupationalSciencePHILOSOPHYSTATEMENTTheOccupationalNatureofHumansandHowTheyLearnOurphilosophyaboutthenatureofhumansandhowtheylearnisinalignmentwiththebasicassumptionsofoccupationalscienceandoccupationaltherapy.AccordingtotheAmericanOc
2、cupationalTherapy’s(AOTA)PhilosophicalBaseofOccupationalTherapy“theunderstandinganduseofoccupationsshallbeatthecentralcoreofoccupationaltherapypractice,education,andresearch”(1995,Policy1.11,1026).Accordingly,webelievethat:1.Humansasoccupationalbeings(Clark,Ennevor,&R
3、ichardson,1996)learn,evolve,andrealizemeaningandpurposeintheirlivesthroughengagementinoccupations(Wilcock,1998;Zemke&Clark,1996).2.Humansproduce,create,master,andimprovetheirenvironmentstoachievehealthandwell-being(Reilly,1962).Viewedascomplexsystems,humansareinaconst
4、antstateofdynamicchange(Gray,Kennedy,&Zemke,1996).Throughactiveengagementinoccupations,humanslearnaboutanddeveloptheirphysical,social,cognitive,psychological,cultural,andspiritualcapacities.3.Theoccupationshumansneedandchoosetoperformdevelopandchange(Zemke&Clark,1996)
5、acrossvariousperiodsoftheirlives,andareinfluencedbythesocialandphysicalenvironmentsandthecultural,personal,temporal,andvirtualcontextsthatexistwithinandaroundthem(AOTA,2008).Likewise,humansshapetheircontextsandenvironmentsthroughtheoccupationsinwhichtheyengage(Canadia
6、nAssociationofOccupationalTherapists,1997).4.Occupationaldisruptionanddeprivationcreatesbarriersforlearningandleadstodiminishedhealthandwell-being.Thus,itisimportantforhumanstoengageindividuallyandcollectivelyinnecessaryandchosenoccupationsthatprovideopportunitiesfort
7、hemtoactivelyshapetheirlives,andtoexperienceindependenceorinterdependence,equality,health,andwell-being(Wilcock&Townsend,2008).StatementofPhilosophyofOccupationalTherapyEducationOurphilosophyofeducationisconsistentwithourphilosophyaboutthenatureofhumansandhowtheylearn
8、andisadaptedfromofthePhilosophyofEducationoftheAOTA(2007,678).Accordingly,webelievethatOccupationaltherapy[andoccupationalsc
