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...

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...