The Ecology of Human Development

The Ecology of Human DevelopmentHere 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 behaviour sacrifice too much in order to gain experimental control and analytic rigour. Laboratory observations, he argues, too often lead to "the science of the strange behavior of children in strange situations with strange