Talk:Urie Bronfenbrenner

But from where did he he come the USA?
The current version says: "He was the son of Dr. Alexander Bronfenbrenner and Eugenie Kamenetski Bronfenbrenner. At age 6, he came to the United States. After a brief stay in Pittsburgh, ..." When his coming to the US at age six is mentioned in such a context we really need to learn *from where*, and where was he born? Those in the know, please fill in. Slavatrudu 18:33, 6 October 2007 (UTC) ✅
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me7103oIE-g — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.215.198.105 (talk) 11:07, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Plagarism
The second and third paragraphs under "Ecological Systems Theory" are almost directly lifted from this website: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept05/Bronfenbrenner.ssl.html I'd delete them, but I don't know what to replace them with. And why are they numbered, anyway? Salvar (talk) 03:19, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * They're a copyright violation. Deleted. Bacrito (talk) 01:20, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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removed paragraph about Comer's theory
I have removed the following paragraph, because it talks more about Comer's theory than Bronfenbrenner's. A comparison between the two theories should be discussed in Ecological Systems Theory, not this biographical article. Each system contains roles, norms and rules that can powerfully shape development. This system is strikingly similar to the social networks approach of James Comer who was the first to put forward a model for school reform, the School Development Program, and upon which nearly every school reform model to follow is built or is influenced by. Comer describes how children are nurtured in nested environments as depicted by a series of platforms of increasing size, the lowest and largest of which represents supporting institutional policies.

The next level up is the secondary social network of schools, workplaces, and organizations providing access to recreational activities and needed health and social services. The second level from the top is the primary social network which consists of religious centers and clubs, neighbors, friends and relatives, and the immediate family or primary caregivers. At the top and center of this system is innermost environment of the child which ostensibly plays as profound a role in development as anything external to the body. The inner environment of the child is conspicuously missing from Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory and perhaps illustrates the point that Bronfenbrenner's work focuses not directly on the child but on how aspects of the much broader macrosystem directly impinge on what Comer calls the primary social network of the child. --Arno Matthias (talk) 08:35, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Upcoming Revisions: Sources for Biographical Information
I am currently in the process of editing this article, namely to add details about his ecological systems theory, his impact on the head start program, his impact on psychology, and to add references to the biography section.

For the biography section specifically, there are pretty strong details and most of the information seems to be correct, but there are no cited sources for that material. The sources I currently have do not have all of the detail included in the biography, so if anyone knows what sources were used for the biography, that would be helpful in making additions to it.

Vochelli (talk) 14:20, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Erroneous quote
This quote is quite wrong: "...the science of normal behavior of society in normal situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time." [2]: The correct quote is "It can be said that much of developmental psychology is the science of the strange behavior of children in strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time." (Broffenbrenner, 1979 p.513) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.196.128.9 (talk) 15:50, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

--That is because an anonymous user came in and changed all the facts to nonsense. Disregard the contents of the current version.Vochelli (talk) 23:25, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

--These incorrect changes have since been fixed.Vochelli (talk) 23:25, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Correct editing and incorrect changes
As mentioned earlier, I wrote a comprehensive revision to this page with an emphasis on backing up the information with sources and mentioning his role in the head start program. I also redirected the section on his Ecological Systems Theory to the Wikipedia page on it, in order to reduce length and to give credit to the writers of the page about his theory. Instead, I emphasized the concept behind the theory and the changes that were made to it.

To the original writers of this article, I apologize for rewriting most of article, but I found this necessary due to the lack of references there were for the information. Instead of finding the correct sources for the existing information, I rewrote the article using the information I found as I went along, since I found this simpler. I can say that most of the content that was included in the original article was substantiated by my research. The basic existing outline for the page, such as the information box, was also quite helpful.

Finally, there seems to have been an IP address user who changed many of the nouns in my edited article to other words that would make the article incorrect. I will see what I can do if this happens again. Vochelli (talk) 23:09, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

11/27/13--Thank you to whoever made the small grammatical corrections. Vochelli (talk) 23:25, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Talk: Ecological Systems Theory
Timestamp Jolodu (talk) 02:10, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Revised lead to focus on developmental psychology, phases of his theory, and links of theory to Head Start
-- Bronfenbrenner is a developmental psychologist whose work encompassed cognitive development focused on social development.

One of the issues with the article is that it muddle different phases of his theoretical work. Contextual focus begins with his work in the 1950's looking at contextual variability in the effects of parental punishment, is clearly articulated in American Psychologist, the source of his most famous quote, further laid out in the Ecology of Human Development, and then gets more complex in his bio-ecological model.

This is now summarized in the lead. I think this will make it easier to organize the different sections of the article and tie to Head Start, ecological systems theory, and bio-ecological systems theory. Nancydarling (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 04:08, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model of development
Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model of development 2409:4066:CC7:D95B:3897:1F22:2B04:D24D (talk) 16:30, 20 May 2024 (UTC)