유리 브론펜브레너

소개

유리 브론펜브레너(Urie Bronfenbrenner, 1917년 4월 29일 ~ 2005년 9월 25일)는 러시아계 미국인 발달심리학자로서 아동발달의 생태학적 심리이론으로 유명하다. 그의 연구와 이론은 아동 발달에 있어서 지대한 환경적 사회적 영향에 주목하게 함으로써 발달 심리학의 관점을 바꾸는 핵심이 되었다.

Urie Bronfenbrenner was a Russian-born American psychologist best known for using a contextual framework to better understand human development. This framework, broadly referred to as 'ecological systems theory', was formalized in an article published in American Psychologist, articulated in a series of propositions and hypotheses in his most cited book, The Ecology of Human Development and further developed in The Bioecological Model of Human Development and later writings. He argued that natural experiments and applied developmental interventions provide valuable scientific opportunities. These beliefs were exemplified in his involvement in developing the US Head Start program in 1965. Bronfenbrenner's writings about the limitations of understanding child development solely from experimental laboratory research and the potential for using contextual variability to provide insight into developmental processes was important in changing the focus of developmental psychology.