The Bronfenbrenner Primer: A Guide to Develecology

A Concise Introduction to Bronfenbrenner is the first text to provide a carefully structured, guided introduction to Urie Bronfenbrenner’s groundbreaking approach to developmental psychology. Examining human—particularly child—development within a broad environmental context, Bronfenbrenner’s concepts have important implications for research and theory.This book describes the background and context that led Bronfenbrenner to develop his framework and its purposes. Short chapters, devoted to each component of the framework, walk students through them in logical order from simplest to most complex, helping students build a solid interrelated structure. The final section presents activities students can do to practice applying the framework to their own experience as well as suggestions for additional ways to employ Bronfenbrenner’s ideas.