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Books (200.2100) The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design
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| Author: |
Urie Bronfenbrenner |
| Publisher: |
Harvard University Press, 2006 |
| Length: |
348 pages |
| Heading: |
220 — Psychology
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| Subjects: |
Child Development; Child development -- Research.; Child Psychology; Child psychology -- Research.; Environmental Science; Family; Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent; Research |
| # Copies: |
1 |
| ISBN/ISSN: |
9780674224575
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| Description: |
FROM THE PUBLISHER: To understand the way children develop, Bronfenbrenner believes that it is necessary to observe their behavior in natural settings, while they are interacting with familiar adults over prolonged periods of time. His book offers an important blueprint for constructing a new and ecologically valid psychology of development.
DESCRIPTION: The book's purpose: to offer a new theoretical perspective for research in human development. Bronfenbrenner achieves this goal superbly. . . The synthesis offered in this book is unique...The effect is a perspective on the field of human development that is exciting in its possibilities...This is a usable and practical book...a powerful teaching text...It conveys masterfully the mystery and excitement of scientific investigation. |
| Age Groups: |
None specified.
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