Urie Bronfenbrenner. BIOGRAPHY Born April 29 th 1917 in Moscow, Russia Immigrated to US in 1923 at the age of 6 Graduated from Cornell in 1938 Double.

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1 Urie Bronfenbrenner

2 BIOGRAPHY Born April 29 th 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

3 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

4 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

5 MICROSYSTEM

6 MESOSYSTEM

7 EXOSYSTEM

8 MACROSYSTEM

9 CHRONOSYSTEM

10 HEAD START

11 References http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=7930&c n=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?au thor_id=78&search_type=author http://s387.photobucket.com/albums/oo314/CatZavala/Bronfenbrenn er