Children, Cities, and Psychological Theories : : Developing Relationships / / ed. by Dietmar Görlitz, Günter Mey, Hans Joachim Harloff, Jaan Valsiner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Altman, Irwin,; Bronfenbrenner, Urie,; Charlesworth, William R.,; Cotterell, John L.,; Deutsch, Werner,; Eybisch, Cornelia,; Eye, Alexander von,; Flade, Antje,; Fuhrer, Urs,; Graumann, Carl F.,; Guski, Rainer,; Gärling, Tommy,; Görlitz, Dietmar,; Günther, Hartmut,; Günther, Isolda de Araújo,; Harloff, Hans Joachim,; Hart, Roger,; Heft, Harry,; Heine, Wolf-D.,; Hinding, Barbara,; Hoppe-Graff, Siegfried,; Keller, Heidi,; Koböck, Bettina,; Kruse, Lenelis,; Lang, Alfred,; Lang, Frieder R.,; Legendre, Alain,; Lehnert, Simone,; Lerner, Richard M.,; Mey, Günter,; Minami, Hirofumi,; Mruck, Katja,; Munz, Christian,; Oerter, Rolf,; Overton, Willis F.,; Rauh, Hellgard,; Ritterfeld, Ute,; Seiler, Thomas Bernhard,; Shpancer, Noam,; Valsiner, Jaan,; Wachs, Theodore D.,; Wapner, Seymour,; Werner, Carol M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Görlitz, Dietmar,; Harloff, Hans Joachim,; Mey, Günter,; Valsiner, Jaan,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies on Childhood and Adolescence : ISCA ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (688 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Keynote --; Foreword --; How it all began – Background to this book --; Part I. Prelude and dedication --; Themes in the relation between children and the city --; Children’s life worlds in urban environments --; Toward a functional ecology of behavior and development: The legacy of Joachim F. Wohlwill --; Part II. Exposition of theoretical perspectives --; Introduction --; A. Levels of relationship – As they appear in different cultures --; A dialectical/transactional framework of social relations: Children in secondary territories --; Comment: Proving philosophy!? --; Authors’ response: Translating a world view --; A contextualist perspective on child-environment relations --; Comment: Clarifying fusion --; Child development and environment: A constructivist perspective --; Comment: Constructivist potentialities and limitations --; Author’s response: Following Aristotle --; Integration: What environment? Which relationship? --; Β. Transactional, holistic, and relational-developmental perspectives on children in the cities --; Transactionalism --; Comment: Transactionalism – What could it be? --; Author’s response: Is Lang going beyond? --; A holistic, developmental, systems-oriented perspective: Child-environment relations --; Comment: Werner augmented --; Relational-developmental theory: A psychological perspective --; Comment: From the general to the individual or from the individual to the general? --; Author’s response: General and individual – A relation --; Integration: Dimensions of a conceptual space – But for what? --; C. Modern versions of Barker’s ecological psychology and the phenomenological perspective --; Children’s environments: The phenomenological approach --; Comment: Don’t forget the subjects – An approach against environmentalism --; Authors’ response: Reading a text – A case study in perspectivity --; Commentators’ reply: Seductive sciences --; Behavior settings in macroenvironments: Implications for the design and analysis of places --; Comment: Behavior setting revitalized --; Behavior settings as vehicles of children’s cultivation --; Comment: Behavior settings forever! --; Integration: Ecological psychology and phenomenology – Their commonality, differences, and interrelations --; D. Sociobiology, attachment theory, and ecological psychology – Marching towards the city --; Exploratory behavior, place attachment, genius loci, and childhood concepts: Elements of understanding children’s interactions with their environments --; Comment: Gender are two --; Author’s response:... but different ones --; Children in cities: An ethological/sociobiological approach --; Comment: And ethology? --; Author’s response: Adaptive variations and the individual --; Street traffic, children, and the extended concept of affordance as a means of shaping the environment --; Comment: Children as perceivers and actors – The view from ecological realism --; Authors’ response: Environmental design means the design of affordances --; Commentator’s reply: The extended concept reconsidered --; Integration: The path to integration is not straight --; Reflections: What has happened in treading the path toward a psychological theory of children and their cities --; Part III. The Finale --; Integrating youth- and context-focused research and outreach: A developmental contextual model --; The young and the old in the city: Developing intergenerational relationships in urban environments --; Where we are – A discussion --; Appendix --; Biographical notes --; Subject index --; Author index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110885194; 9783110637939
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110885194
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Dietmar Görlitz, Günter Mey, Hans Joachim Harloff, Jaan Valsiner.