Children, cities, and psychological theories : developing relationships /

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: G rlitz, Dietmar; Harloff, Hans Joachim; Mey, Günter; Valsiner, Jaan
Published: De Gruyter,
Publisher Address: Berlin ; Boston :
Publication Dates: 2012.
©1998
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: International studies on childhood and adolescence ; volume 5
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110885194
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Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xi, 688 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN: 9783110885194
Index Number: HT206
CLC: B844.1
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Keynote --
Foreword --
How it all began Background to this book --
Part I. Prelude and dedication --
Themes in the relation between children and the city --
Children s life worlds in urban environments --
Toward a functional ecology of behavior and development: The legacy of Joachim F. Wohlwill --
Part II. Exposition of theoretical perspectives --
Introduction --
A. Levels of relationship As they appear in different cultures --
A dialectical/transactional framework of social relations: Children in secondary territories --
Comment: Proving philosophy!? --
Authors response: Translating a world view --
A contextualist perspective on child-environment relations --
Comment: Clarifying fusion --
Child development and environment: A constructivist perspective --
Comment: Constructivist potentialities and limitations --
Author s response: Following Aristotle --
Integration: What environment? Which relationship? --
. Transactional, holistic, and relational-developmental perspectives on children in the cities --
Transactionalism --
Comment: Transactionalism What could it be? --
Author s response: Is Lang going beyond? --
A holistic, developmental, systems-oriented perspective: Child-environment relations --
Comment: Werner augmented --
Relational-developmental theory: A psychological perspective --
Comment: From the general to the individual or from the individual to the general? --
Author s response: General and individual A relation --
Integration: Dimensions of a conceptual space But for what? --
C. Modern versions of Barker s ecological psychology and the phenomenological perspective --
Children s environments: The phenomenological approach --
Comment: Don t forget the subjects An approach against environmentalism --
Authors response: Reading a text A case study in perspectivity --
Commentators reply: Seductive sciences --
Behavior settings in macroenvironme