Urie Bronfenbrenner

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LITERATURE - AUTHORS

Language
GERMAN

Urie Bronfenbrenner was a Russian-born American psychologist best known for using a contextual framework to better understand human development.[1] This framework was formalized in an article published in American Psychologist,[2] articulated in a series of propositions and hypotheses in his most cited book, The Ecology of Human Development[3] and further developed in The Bioecological Model of Human Development [4] and later writings. He argued that natural experiments and applied developmental interventions provide valuable scientific opportunities.[2] These beliefs were exemplified in his involvement in developing the US Head Start program in 1965.[5] Bronfenbrenner's writings about the limitations of understanding child development solely from experimental laboratory research and the potential for using contextual variability to provide insight into developmental processes [3] was important in changing the focus of developmental psychology.[5]

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