The ecology of human development : experiments by nature and design / Urie Bronfenbrenner.

"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 experimenta...

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Main Author: Bronfenbrenner, Urie, 1917-2005
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, p1979].
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Table of Contents:
  • Part One: An Ecological Orientation
  • 1. Purpose and perspective
  • 2. Basic Concept
  • Parttwo: Elements of the setting
  • 3. The Nature and functio n of Molar activities
  • 4. Interpersonal structures as contexts of human development
  • 5. Roles as contexts of human development
  • Part three: The analysis of setting
  • 6. The laboratory as an ecological context
  • 7. Chirldren's Institutions as Contexts of Human Development
  • 8. Day Care and poreschool as contexts of human development
  • Part four: Beyond the Microsystem
  • 9. The Mesosystem and Human Development
  • 10. Th eExosystem and Human Development
  • 11. The Macrosystem and Human Development
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.