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.)

Table of Contents

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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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