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