Urie Bronfenbrenner

FAMOUS AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST URIE BRONFENBRENNER

BIOGRAPHY

• Born April 29th 1917 in Moscow, Russia
• Immigrated to US in 1923 at the age of 6
• Graduated from Cornell in 1938
• Double major Psychology and Music
• Masters from Harvard
• Developmental psychology

Biography Continued

• PhD from University of Michigan
• One day after graduating was inducted into Army as a Psychologist
• Returned to Cornell University in 1948
• Died September 25, 2005 in Ithaca, NY

Biography Continued

• “Father” of Head Start
• Famous for views on ecological psychology
• Interactions with others and environment are key to development
• We experience more than one type of environment

MICROSYSTEM

MESOSYSTEM

EXOSYSTEM

MACROSYSTEM

CHRONOSYSTEM

HEAD START

References

http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=7930&cn=28

http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/302/302bron.PDF

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urie_Bronfenbrenner

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/sept05/bronfenbrenner.ssl.html

http://www.learningtogive.org/search/quotes/Display_Quotes.asp?author_id=78&search_type=author

http://s387.photobucket.com/albums/oo314/CatZavala/Bronfenbrenner