2nd Edition
The Bronfenbrenner Primer Introduction to Develecology
1 Introduction to Urie Bronfenbrenner 2 From Ecology of Human Development to Develecology 3 The Framework 4 The Person and Development 5 Activities 6 Dyads and Relations 7 Important Characteristics of Relations 8 Roles 9 Settings 10 Ecological Transitions 11 Essentials of Systems Theory 12 Microsystem 13 Proximal Processes and Development 14 Links and Relations between Settings 15 Mesosystem 16 Developmental Trajectory 17 Exosystem 18 Macrosystem 19 Chronosystem 20 Research Design 21 Bronfenbrenner’s Examples 22 Learning and Using Bronfenbrenner’s Framework 23 Eco-Analysis 24 More about Bronfenbrenner’s Work 25 More Applications of Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Model 26 Why Develecology? Appendices
Biography
Lawrence G. Shelton is a Developmental Psychologist who has taught Human Development and Family Science at the University of Vermont since 1971. Dr. Shelton has authored and edited several books on child and adolescent development, as well as several handbooks and manuals for parents and teachers. In his teaching and writing he has applied Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems model in a variety of ways to many aspects of development.
Reviews from the 1st Edition:
"Few scientists have had as profound an impact on the study of human development as Urie Bronfenbrenner. This textbook does a terrific job of explaining Bronfenbrenner’s most important ideas in a way that will help students really understand them and apply them to their own research. I recommend it highly."
– Laurence Steinberg, Temple University, USA.
"Lawrence Shelton has done a great service for generations of students to come by offering a comprehensive presentation of Urie Bronfenbrenner's approach to the ecology of human development. Shelton's book is clear, detailed, rich in its real world connections, and ‘keeps faith’ with Urie's vision of how to study and understand the complex processes by which the biological organism becomes the human person. As someone who knew Urie well I am pleased to see this important effort to keep his intellectual legacy alive and vibrant."
– James Garbarino, Loyola University Chicago, USA.
