Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917 to 2005) was a Russian-born American developmental psychologist who spent most of his career at Cornell University, where he held the Jacob Gould Schurman professorship of human development and psychology. He is best known for ecological systems theory, which treats a child's development as shaped by nested environments running from the family outward to economic and political structures, and which he later developed into a bioecological approach. He helped to create the Head Start program in 1965 and wrote, co-wrote or edited more than 300 articles and chapters and 14 books, including The Ecology of Human Development and Two Worlds of Childhood: US and USSR. He died on September 25, 2005, at the age of 88.
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was a renowned Russian -born American psychologist , known for his work in child development .
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Generally regarded as one of the world's leading scholars in the field of developmental psychology , Bronfenbrenner's primary theoretical contribution was his Ecological Systems Theory, in which he delineated four types of nested systems.
Theories and Concepts Developed: Ecological Systems Theory, Introduction
Generally regarded as one of the world's leading scholars in the field of developmental psychology , Bronfenbrenner's primary theoretical contribution was his Ecological Systems Theory, in which he delineated four types of nested systems.
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