An Ecological Study of the Behavior of Preschool Children
Author : Murray Krantz
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Page : 178 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
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Author : Murray Krantz
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Page : 178 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
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Author : Sheila O'Donnell Schuster
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 20,11 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Child psychology
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Author : Peter K. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521223318
This study examines the preschool years in a child's development, education and their deployment in preschool institutions.
Author : Judith Ann Houseman
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Child development
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Author : Patrick Henry Doyle
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Page : 672 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Child psychology
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Author : Judith Ann Houseman
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Wayne Thomas Fisk
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Education, Preschool
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Author : Marianne N. Bloch
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Education
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This volume illustrates the wide range of current theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and research directions in studies of the ecology of children's play. The contributors represent a range of disciplines and methods including ecological psychology, ethology, cross-cultural psychology and anthropology, education, and architecture.
Author : Irwin Altman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1468434055
In the first two volumes of the series we elected to cover a broad spectrum of topics in the environment and behavior field, ranging from theoretical to applied, and including disciplinary, interdiscipli nary, and professionally related topics. Chapters in these earlier vol umes dealt with leisure and recreation, the elderly, personal space, aesthetics, energy, behavioral approaches to environmental problems, methodological issues, social indicators, industrial settings, and the like. Chapters were written by psychologists, sociologists, geogra phers, and other social scientists, and by authors from professional design fields such as urban planning, operations research, landscape architecture, and so on. Our goal in these first two volumes was to present a sampling of areas in the emerging environment and behavior field and to give readers some insight into the diversity of research and theoretical perspectives that characterize the field. Beginning with the present volume, our efforts will be directed at a series of thematic volumes. The present collection of chapters is focused on children and the environment, and, as much as possible, we invited contributions that reflect a variety of theoretical and em pirical perspectives on this topic. The next volume in the series, now in preparation, will address the area of "culture and the environment. " Suggestions for possible future topics are welcome. Irwin Altman Joachim F.
Author : Urie BRONFENBRENNER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0674028848
Here is a book that challenges the very basis of the way psychologists have studied child development. According to Urie Bronfenbrenner, one of the world's foremost developmental psychologists, laboratory studies of the child's behavior sacrifice too much in order to gain experimental control and analytic rigor. Laboratory observations, he argues, too often lead to "the science of the strange behavior of children in strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time." To understand the way children actually develop, Bronfenbrenner believes that it will be necessary to observe their behavior in natural settings, while they are interacting with familiar adults over prolonged periods of time. This book offers an important blueprint for constructing such a new and ecologically valid psychology of development. The blueprint includes a complete conceptual framework for analysing the layers of the environment that have a formative influence on the child. This framework is applied to a variety of settings in which children commonly develop, ranging from the pediatric ward to daycare, school, and various family configurations. The result is a rich set of hypotheses about the developmental consequences of various types of environments. Where current research bears on these hypotheses, Bronfenbrenner marshals the data to show how an ecological theory can be tested. Where no relevant data exist, he suggests new and interesting ecological experiments that might be undertaken to resolve current unknowns. Bronfenbrenner's groundbreaking program for reform in developmental psychology is certain to be controversial. His argument flies in the face of standard psychological procedures and challenges psychology to become more relevant to the ways in which children actually develop. It is a challenge psychology can ill-afford to ignore.