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The ecology of human development : experiments by nature and design / Urie Bronfenbrenner.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1979.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 330 pages.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674028845 (electronic bk.)
  • 0674028848 (electronic bk.)
Report number: 78027232Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Ecology of human development.; No titleDDC classification:
  • 155.4
LOC classification:
  • BF722 .B76 1979
NLM classification:
  • WS 105.3
Other classification:
  • 77.53
  • 77.55
  • cci1icc
  • CP 1000
  • CQ 1000
  • CQ 6000
  • 155.4
Online resources:
Contents:
An ecological orientation. Purpose and perspective ; Basic concepts -- Elements of the setting. The nature and function of molar activities ; Interpersonal structures as contexts of human development ; Roles as contexts of human development -- The analysis of settings. The laboratory as an ecological context ; Children's institutions as contexts of human development ; Day care and preschool as contexts of human development -- Beyond the microsystem. The mesosystem and human development ; The exosystem and human development ; The macrosystem and human development.
Awards:
  • Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 1980.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-319) and index.

An ecological orientation. Purpose and perspective ; Basic concepts -- Elements of the setting. The nature and function of molar activities ; Interpersonal structures as contexts of human development ; Roles as contexts of human development -- The analysis of settings. The laboratory as an ecological context ; Children's institutions as contexts of human development ; Day care and preschool as contexts of human development -- Beyond the microsystem. The mesosystem and human development ; The exosystem and human development ; The macrosystem and human development.

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Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 1980.

Description based on print version record.