Evolving Explanations of Development - Cathy Dent-Read, Patricia Zukow-Goldring

ecological approaches to organism-environment systems

KORTE INHOUD

New approaches to understanding how organisms develop are evolving in the field of developmental psychology.
This book brings together for the first time researchers and theorists from three emerging approaches to development: ecological realism, dynamic systems and epigenetic systems. Within these views 'ecological' refers to a consideration of the whole organism-environment system, that is, how organisms and environment mutually determine each other throughout development.
This eloquent volume will make fascinating reading for researchers and advanced students who are interested in exploring development from an ecological perspective.

Different investigators mean different things when they refer to their developmental approaches as 'ecological'. As a consequence, the term has begun to carry uncertain meanings. This volume brings together three different ecological approaches to the study of behavioural development - ecological realism (Gibsonian), dynamic systems, and epigenetic systems - in a single source s...
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