Children, Cities, and Psychological Theories : Developing Relationships / Dietmar Görlitz, Günter Mey, Hans Joachim Harloff, Jaan Valsiner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Görlitz, Dietmar, editor.

Harloff, Hans Joachim, editor.

Mey, Günter, editor.

Valsiner, Jaan, editor.

Series:

International Studies on Childhood and Adolescence ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City children.

Child development.

Cities and towns--Psychological aspects.

Cities and towns.

Social ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (700 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Reprint 2012

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Twelve popular theories in psychology are presented, and their applicability to issues of child development in urban environments is tested. Each contribution is commented by colleagues. aspects of variety studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Keynote / Hart, Roger

Foreword / Bronfenbrenner, Urie

How it all began - Background to this book / Görlitz, Dietmar

Part I. Prelude and dedication

Themes in the relation between children and the city / Görlitz, Dietmar

Children's life worlds in urban environments / Harloff, Hans Joachim / Lehnert, Simone / Eybisch, Cornelia

Toward a functional ecology of behavior and development: The legacy of Joachim F. Wohlwill / Heft, Harry

Part II. Exposition of theoretical perspectives

Introduction / Mey, Günter

A. Levels of relationship - As they appear in different cultures

Introduction / Görlitz, Dietmar

A dialectical/transactional framework of social relations: Children in secondary territories / Werner, Carol M. / Altman, Irwin

Comment: Proving philosophy!? / Ritterfeld, Ute

Authors' response: Translating a world view / Werner, Carol M. / Altman, Irwin

A contextualist perspective on child-environment relations / Wachs, Theodore D. / Shpancer, Noam

Comment: Clarifying fusion / Hoppe-Graff, Siegfried

Child development and environment: A constructivist perspective / Seiler, Thomas Bernhard

Comment: Constructivist potentialities and limitations / Hoppe-Graff, Siegfried

Author's response: Following Aristotle / Seiler, Thomas Bernhard

Integration: What environment? Which relationship? / Günther, Isolda de Araújo / Günther, Hartmut

Β. Transactional, holistic, and relational-developmental perspectives on children in the cities

Introduction / Harloff, Hans Joachim

Transactionalism / Oerter, Rolf

Comment: Transactionalism - What could it be? / Lang, Alfred

Author's response: Is Lang going beyond? / Oerter, Rolf

A holistic, developmental, systems-oriented perspective: Child-environment relations / Wapner, Seymour

Comment: Werner augmented / Görlitz, Dietmar

Relational-developmental theory: A psychological perspective / Overton, Willis F.

Comment: From the general to the individual or from the individual to the general? / Deutsch, Werner

Author's response: General and individual - A relation / Overton, Willis F.

Integration: Dimensions of a conceptual space - But for what? / Rauh, Hellgard

C. Modern versions of Barker's ecological psychology and the phenomenological perspective

Children's environments: The phenomenological approach / Graumann, Carl F. / Kruse, Lenelis

Comment: Don't forget the subjects - An approach against environmentalism / Mruck, Katja / Mey, Günter

Authors' response: Reading a text - A case study in perspectivity / Graumann, Carl F. / Kruse, Lenelis

Commentators' reply: Seductive sciences / Mruck, Katja / Mey, Günter

Behavior settings in macroenvironments: Implications for the design and analysis of places / Cotterell, John L.

Comment: Behavior setting revitalized / Hinding, Barbara

Behavior settings as vehicles of children's cultivation / Fuhrer, Urs

Comment: Behavior settings forever! / Harloff, Hans Joachim

Integration: Ecological psychology and phenomenology - Their commonality, differences, and interrelations / Minami, Hirofumi

D. Sociobiology, attachment theory, and ecological psychology - Marching towards the city

Introduction / Valsiner, Jaan

Exploratory behavior, place attachment, genius loci, and childhood concepts: Elements of understanding children's interactions with their environments / Keller, Heidi

Comment: Gender are two / Flade, Antje

Author's response:... but different ones / Keller, Heidi

Children in cities: An ethological/sociobiological approach / Charlesworth, William R.

Comment: And ethology? / Legendre, Alain

Author's response: Adaptive variations and the individual / Charlesworth, William R.

Street traffic, children, and the extended concept of affordance as a means of shaping the environment / Heine, Wolf-D. / Guski, Rainer

Comment: Children as perceivers and actors - The view from ecological realism / Munz, Christian

Authors' response: Environmental design means the design of affordances / Heine, Wolf-D. / Guski, Rainer

Commentator's reply: The extended concept reconsidered / Munz, Christian

Integration: The path to integration is not straight / Gärling, Tommy

Reflections: What has happened in treading the path toward a psychological theory of children and their cities / Mey, Günter

Part III. The Finale

Integrating youth- and context-focused research and outreach: A developmental contextual model / Lerner, Richard M. / Eye, Alexander von

The young and the old in the city: Developing intergenerational relationships in urban environments / Lang, Frieder R.

Where we are - A discussion / Koböck, Bettina / Görlitz, Dietmar / Harloff, Hans Joachim / Mey, Günter / Valsiner, Jaan

Appendix

Biographical notes

Subject index

Author index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110885194

3110885190

OCLC:

979756921