Children, Cities, and Psychological Theories

Angebote / Angebote:

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 -- ¿. 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 -- Introduction / Mey, Günter -- 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