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Urie Bronfenbrenner
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Urie Bronfenbrenner
Theory
Biography
Fun Facts
Human Development and Social Ecological Systems Model
Early Life
- Born in 1917 in the Soviet Union
- Moved to the United States at age 6
- Lived in Pittsburgh, PA, but moved to rural New York a year later
- Father was a neuropathologist at a residential institution for the disabled
Criticism
- 1965 - federal Head Start program
- 14 books and over 300 research papers
- 13 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild
- Center for Translational Research at Cornell
- 1990- theme for a McDonald's ad
- Difficult to apply because it requires that everything in someone’s environment be taken into account
- Tendency to view children as objects
- Preoccupation with achieving "normal" childhood without a common understanding of “normal”
- Fails to see that the variables of social life are in constant interplay and that small variables can change a system
- Misses the tension between control and self-realization in child-adult relationships; children can shape culture
Later Life
- Served in military during WWII as a psychologist
- Returned to Cornell to teach and do research
- Married Liese Price and had 6 children
- Died in 2005 (age 88)
Bronfenbrenner at Cornell's Early Childhood Center
Sources
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urie_Bronfenbrenner
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E5D81530F934A1575AC0A9639C8B63
- http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791231/obo-9780199791231-0112.xml
- http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=7930
- http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/uncategorized/in-appreciation-urie-bronfenbrenner.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_ecological_model#Criticism
Education
Bachelors in psychology and music from Cornell in 1938
Masters in education from Harvard in 1940
Doctorate in developmental psychology from University of Michigan in 1942
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