Urie Bronfenbrenner

Urie Bronfenbrenner ( born April 29, 1917 in Moscow, † September 25, 2005 in Ithaca, NY ) was an American developmental psychologist and author.

Biography

Bronfenbrenners family emigrated in 1923 to the United States. In 1938, Urie with a degree in psychology and music at Cornell University in New York, in 1942, he obtained a doctorate in developmental psychology. He was then the Air Force and later to the Office of Strategic Services intelligence collected, where it was used during the Second World War as a psychologist. In 1946 he became an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, 1948, he moved to Cornell University, where he taught until his retirement in 1987. Beginning of the 1960s he was one of the first U.S. scientist who went on an exchange program to the Soviet Union.

Bronfenbrenner became famous especially with his theory of human development, the ecosystem approach. He emphasized the special importance of transitions between systems (such as school enrollment ), in contrast to other systemic approaches that ask especially after the structure or the rules of the systems. Educational relevance gained Bronfenbrenner, especially in the co-founders of Head -start program for early childhood education. Bronfenbrenner developed for the first time in Germany on the occasion of his speech to Münster honorary doctorate also thought for a Caring Curriculum.

For his work he has received numerous awards, including a total of seven honorary doctorates ( for example, from the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Münster ). At prices he received, among other 1975 award for extraordinary achievements of the American Educational Research Association, 1977 Kurt Lewin Award of the American Psychological Association (APA ), 1984 an award for extraordinary achievements of the University of Michigan and in 1987 the prize for exceptional scientific contributions to the development of children in the society for the study of child development. 1994 renamed the Center for Family and Life Course Research Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center, Cornell University. 1996 founded the American Psychological Society to Bronfenbrenner Award for lifetime contributions to the development of psychology in the service of science and society, whose first winner Urie Bronfenbrenner was himself.

Urie Bronfenbrenner died of complications from diabetes disease at his home in Ithaca, New York. He left behind his wife Lisa, six children, 13 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

Publications (selection)

  • Urie Bronfenbrenner: education systems. Children in the United States and the Soviet Union; Munich: dtv, 1973; ISBN 3-423-00941-1
  • Urie Bronfenbrenner: The ecology of human development. Natural and designed experiments; Klett- Cotta, 1981; ISBN 3-12-930620- X
  • Urie Bronfenbrenner: Recent Advances in Research on the Ecology of Human Development; in: R.-K. Silver iron, K. Eyferth, G. Rudinger: Development as Action in Context - Problem Behavior and Normal Youth Development; Berlin: Springer, 1986; pp. 287-310
  • Urie Bronfenbrenner, Ann Crouter: The evolution of environmental models in developmental research; in: P.-H. Mussen (Ed.): Handbook of Child Psychology, Volume I: History, Theory, and Methods; New York: John Wiley & Sons, 19834; pp. 357-414
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