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Toward an Experimental Ecology of Human Development

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Title
Toward an Experimental Ecology of Human Development
Abstract/Description
Proposes a broader approach to research in human development that focuses on the progressive accommodation, throughout the life span, between the growing human organism and the changing environments in which it actually lives and grows. The latter include not only the immediate settings containing the developing person but also the larger social contexts, both formal and informal, in which these settings are embedded. In terms of method, the approach emphasizes the use of rigorously designed experiments, both naturalistic and contrived, beginning in the early stages of the research process. The changing relation between person and environment is conceived in systems terms. These systems properties are set forth in a series of propositions, each illustrated by concrete research examples.
Author/creator
Bronfenbrenner, Urie
Date
1977
In publication
American Psychologist
Volume
32
Pages
513-531
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Medium
en Print
Background/context type
en Conceptual
Keywords
environment
experimental methods
experimentation
human development
theories
ISSN
1935-990X
DOI
10.1037/0003-066X.32.7.513
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (APA PsychNet)
Citation
Bronfenbrenner, U. (1977). Toward an Experimental Ecology of Human Development. American Psychologist, 32, 513–531. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.32.7.513
Cited in
Equitable Learning
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Theoretical
Item sets
Handbook Chapter 3 Citations

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