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

Referenceshttp://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