The Bronfenbrenner Primer: A Guide to Develecology

ISBN-13: 9781138037168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 150 str.

Lawrence Shelton

Opis

A Concise Introduction to Bronfenbrenner is the first text to provide a carefully structured, guided introduction to Urie Bronfenbrenner's groundbreaking approach to developmental psychology. Examining human--particularly child--development within a broad environmental context, Bronfenbrenner's concepts have important implications for research and theory.This book describes the background and context that led Bronfenbrenner to develop his framework and its purposes. Short chapters, devoted to each component of the framework, walk students through them in logical order from simplest to most complex, helping students build a solid interrelated structure. The final section presents activities students can do to practice applying the framework to their own experience as well as suggestions for additional ways to employ Bronfenbrenner's ideas.

Recenzje

"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

"Researchers and practitioners often use Bronfenbrenner's theory as a guiding framework for examining individual development within the context of a larger ecosystem. Thus, having an accurate understanding of his theoretical model is critical to improving the lives of children and families. Shelton reminds us of the importance of Bronfenbrenner's theoretical framework by offering a well-written primer that appropriately targets undergraduate students. Incorporating his book in the undergraduate human development curriculum would help students appreciate and understand the fundamentals of his framework in their undergraduate coursework and beyond." - Lauren E. Altenburger & Polina Soldatova, Journal of Family Theory and Review

O autorze

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.