| Description |
xxix, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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The Sage program on applied developmental science |
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Sage program on applied developmental science.
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| Contents |
Foreword / Richard M. Lerner -- Sect. I. On the nature of bioecological theory and research -- 1. The bioecological theory of human development (2001) -- 2. Social ecology over time and space (1995) / R. B. Cairns and B. D. Cairns -- 3. Social status, structure, and development in the classroom group (1942) -- 4. The social ecology of human development : a retrospective conclusion (1973) -- 5. Lewinian space and ecological substance (1977) -- 6. A future perspective (1979) -- 7. Toward a critical history of development : a propaedeutic discussion (1986) -- 8. Interacting systems in human development : research paradigms : present and future (1988) -- 9. The developing ecology of human development : paradigm lost or paradigm regained (1989) -- 10. Ecological systems theory (1992) -- 11. Heredity, environment and the question "how" : a first approximation (1993) -- 12. Growing chaos in the lives of children, youth, and families : how can we turn it around? (2001) -- Sect. II. Using the ecology of human development to enhance the human condition -- 13. The split-level American family (1967) -- 14. Minority report of forum 15 : 1970 White House Conference on Children (1970) -- 15. Two worlds of childhood : U.S. and U.S.S.R. (1970) -- 16. Is 80% of intelligence genetically determined? (1975) -- 17. The future of childhood (1985) -- 18. Strengthening family systems (1988) -- 19. Child care in the Anglo-Saxon mode (1992) -- Afterword / Stephen F. Hamilton and Stephen J. Ceci |
| Summary |
Bronfenbrenner (emeritus human development and psychology, Cornell U.) has compiled 19 papers, one by colleagues, written between 1942 and 2001 on the nature of bioecological theory and research, and using the ecology of human development to enhance the human condition. His main thesis is that to a greater extent than for any other species, humans create the environments that shape the course of human development; that their actions influence the multiple physical and cultural tiers of the ecology that shapes them; and that this agency makes humans active producers of their own development |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Developmental psychology.
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Environmental psychology.
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Nature and nurture.
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Human Development.
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Social Environment.
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| Author |
Bronfenbrenner, Urie, 1917-2005.
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| LC no. |
2004003255 |
| ISBN |
0761927115 cloth |
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0761927123 paperback |
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