The Ecology of Human Development : : Experiments by Nature and Design /

The Ecology of Human Development : : Experiments by Nature and Design / / Urie Bronfenbrenner.

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Here is a book that challenges the very basis of the way psychologists have studied child development. According to Urie Bronfenbrenner, one of the world’s foremost developmental psychologists, laboratory studies of the child’s behavior sacrifice too much in order to gain experimental control and an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
VerfasserIn:
Bronfenbrenner, Urie,
MitwirkendeR:
Cole, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©1979
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Part One AN ECOLOGICAL ORIENTATION
  • 1. Purpose and Perspective
  • 2. Basic Concepts
  • Part Two ELEMENTS OF THE SETTING
  • 3. The Nature and Function of Molar Activities
  • 4. Interpersonal Structures as Contexts of Human Development
  • 5. Roles as Contexts of Human Development
  • Part Three THE ANALYSIS OF SETTINGS
  • 6. The Laboratory as an Ecological Context
  • 7. Children's Institutions as Contexts of Human Development
  • 8. Day Care and Preschool as Contexts of Human Development
  • Part Four BEYOND THE MICROSYSTEM
  • 9. The Mesosystem and Human Development
  • 10. The Exosystem and Human Development
  • 11. The Macrosystem and Human Development
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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