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The first text to provide a guided introduction to Bronfenbrenner's groundbreaking approach to human development, this book is carefully structured to enable students to acquire a cohesive understanding of his ecological approach to development.
List of contents
1. Introduction to Urie Bronfenbrenner 2. From Ecology of Human Development to Develecology 3. The Framework 4. The Person and Development 5. Activities 6. Dyads and Relations 7. Important Characteristics of Relations 8. Roles 9. Settings 10. Ecological Transitions 11. Essentials of Systems Theory 12. Microsystem 13. Proximal Processes 14. Links and Relations between Settings 15. Mesosystem 16. Developmental Trajectory 17. Exosystem 18. Macrosystem 19. Chronosystem 20. Research Design 21. Bronfenbrenner’s Examples 22. Using Bronfenbrenner’s Framework 23. Exercises and Applications 24. Eco-Analysis 25. Develecology 001: Bronfenbrenner Made Plain. Appendix 1. Selected Works of Urie Bronfenbrenner Pertinent to Develecology. Appendix 2. Directory of Definitions, Propositions and Hypotheses.
About the author
Lawrence G. Shelton is a Developmental Psychologist who has taught in the Human Development and Family Studies Program at the University of Vermont since 1971.
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The first text to provide a guided introduction to Bronfenbrenner’s groundbreaking approach to human development, this book is carefully structured to enable students to acquire a cohesive understanding of his ecological approach to development.
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"Few scientists have had as profound an impact on the study of human development as Urie Bronfenbrenner. This textbook does a terrific job of explaining Bronfenbrenner’s most important ideas in a way that will help students really understand them and apply them to their own research. I recommend it highly." - Laurence Steinberg, Temple University, USA
"Lawrence Shelton has done a great service for generations of students to come by offering a comprehensive presentation of Urie Bronfenbrenner's approach to the ecology of human development. Shelton's book is clear, detailed, rich in its real world connections, and ‘keeps faith’ with Urie's vision of how to study and understand the complex processes by which the biological organism becomes the human person. As someone who knew Urie well I am pleased to see this important effort to keep his intellectual legacy alive and vibrant." – James Garbarino, Loyola University Chicago, USA
