The Bronfenbrenner Primer: A Guide to Develecology

by Lawrence Shelton

This is the first ever introduction to Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Framework written specifically for undergraduate students. The author provides a carefully structured, guided introduction to Bronfenbrenner’s concepts, their interpretation, and their potential applications. Bronfenbrenner’s scientific analysis of the role the environment plays in human development earned him a premier place alongside Jean Piaget, Sigmund Freud, and Erik Erikson as a contributor to our understanding of developmental processes. His ideas are essential for analysing how development happens, how it goes astray, how to right it when it does, and how to create environments that will promote healthy development.

The Bronfenbrenner Primer walks students through each component of the framework in a logical order, helping students build a solid, systematic understanding. It describes the background and context that led Bronfenbrenner to develop his framework, illustrates a wide array of potential applications, and provides activities students can do to practice applying the framework to their own experience. Honed over 25 years of teaching Bronfenbrenner’s ideas, this text will be essential reading for students across the behavioral and social sciences.

163 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 17, 2018

Reviews

[Sam Regan]

Read this for school. I read most of this at the begging do the class 2 months ago and just read the end now so I honestly don’t remember it too well. I thought the content was interesting but feel like it could’ve been more engaging and better written.

[Dominic Giugliano]

A bit dense, but made me think a lot about psychological dyads and how complicated mental development is given all the continuously interacting components of our environments.

[Andres Zeballos]

The book tries to highlight the Bronfenbrenner theory, theory that goes according to the systemic theory and explain the ecosystem in which one of us is living in

[Alexi Salazar]

the points made across this book are so repetitive it becomes confusing