Bronfenbrenner Analysis
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Bronfenbrenner Analysis
COUN 5004 Survey of Research in Human Development and Behavior
Lynette Rollins-Barrett
Capella University
April 6, 2012
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Abstract
This essay will give a brief description of Urie Bronfenbrenner contribution to the psychology. It will assess Bronfenbrenner ecological theory of development. It will examine the Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model of Human Development how each of the five systems form a child’s personal development. The document will identify which of Bronfenbrenner systems had the greatest impact on this scholar’s individual’s growth. It will evaluate the effects of the ecological theory in regard to what prompted this scholar’s decision to enter a graduate program in Mental Health Counseling. It will state which system Bronfenbrenner thought was most important.
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Bronfenbrenner Analysis
According to New World Encyclopedia, Urie Bronfenbrenner was a Russian-born, American-Psychologist. At the age of 6, his family moved to the United States. His father, Dr. Alexander Bronfenbrenner was a clinical pathologist and research director for the New York Institution for the Mentally Retarded. Bronfenbrenner attended Cornell University, where he completed a double major in psychology and music in 1938. He obtained an M.A in developmental psychology at Harvard University, followed by a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1942. Urie was known for his work in child development and a co-founder of the Head Start program in the United States for underprivileged pre-school children. Dr. Bronfenbrenner developed his Ecological Systems Theory of Human Development which had a great impact on the way psychologists and other social scientists viewed the study of child development and their environments. This methodology explains how everything in a child and the child’s environment affects how they grow and
Bronfenbrenner Analysis
COUN 5004 Survey of Research in Human Development and Behavior
Lynette Rollins-Barrett
Capella University
April 6, 2012
2.
Abstract
This essay will give a brief description of Urie Bronfenbrenner contribution to the psychology. It will assess Bronfenbrenner ecological theory of development. It will examine the Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model of Human Development how each of the five systems form a child’s personal development. The document will identify which of Bronfenbrenner systems had the greatest impact on this scholar’s individual’s growth. It will evaluate the effects of the ecological theory in regard to what prompted this scholar’s decision to enter a graduate program in Mental Health Counseling. It will state which system Bronfenbrenner thought was most important.
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Bronfenbrenner Analysis
According to New World Encyclopedia, Urie Bronfenbrenner was a Russian-born, American-Psychologist. At the age of 6, his family moved to the United States. His father, Dr. Alexander Bronfenbrenner was a clinical pathologist and research director for the New York Institution for the Mentally Retarded. Bronfenbrenner attended Cornell University, where he completed a double major in psychology and music in 1938. He obtained an M.A in developmental psychology at Harvard University, followed by a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1942. Urie was known for his work in child development and a co-founder of the Head Start program in the United States for underprivileged pre-school children. Dr. Bronfenbrenner developed his Ecological Systems Theory of Human Development which had a great impact on the way psychologists and other social scientists viewed the study of child development and their environments. This methodology explains how everything in a child and the child’s environment affects how they grow and
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