Bronfenbrenner biography
Bronfenbrenner biography
Urie Bronfenbrenner Biography - Contributions To Psychology!
Urie Bronfenbrenner
American psychologist
Urie Bronfenbrenner (April 29, 1917, Moscow[1] – September 25, 2005) was a Russian-born American psychologist best known for using a contextual framework to better understand human development.[2] This framework, broadly referred to as 'ecological systems theory', was formalized in an article published in American Psychologist,[3] articulated in a series of propositions and hypotheses in his most cited book, The Ecology of Human Development[4] and further developed in The Bioecological Model of Human Development [5] and later writings.
He argued that natural experiments and applied developmental interventions provide valuable scientific opportunities.[3] These beliefs were exemplified in his involvement in developing the US Head Start program in 1965.[6] Bronfenbrenner's writings about the limitations of understanding child development solely from experimental labo