The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design

by Urie Bronfenbrenner

Book Overview

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 experimental control and analytic rigor. Laboratory observations, he argues, too often lead to "the science of the strange behavior of children in strange situations with strange...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674224574
• ISBN13: 9780674224575
• Release Date: September 1981
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A 'Must' for Family Researchers

Bronfenbrenner is a must for family researchers to define the variables of human development from the individual to the community and world surrounding them. A highly recommended theory for social/family researchers.

Bronfenbrenner at his best.

I have been in search of this book at an affordable price for many years. Bronfenbrenner's 'ecological systems' model is a brilliant framework through which to look at inextricable factors present in the individual's developmental environment. His definitions and hypotheses are clearly stated, his argument is sound and thought provoking and he brings together psychological theory and concepts that enhance theoretical understanding. A collector's book, excellent price, condition and value Judith Hudson Wales. UK