Children, Cities, and Psychological Theories: Developing Relationships

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Children, Cities, and Psychological Theories

Developing Relationships

Edited by: Dietmar Görlitz , Hans Joachim Harloff , Günter Mey and Jaan Valsiner

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1998

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	i
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
Keynote Roger Hart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Foreword Urie Bronfenbrenner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	5
How it all began – Background to this book Dietmar Görlitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
Part I. Prelude and dedication
Themes in the relation between children and the city Dietmar Görlitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
Children’s life worlds in urban environments Hans Joachim Harloff, Simone Lehnert and Cornelia Eybisch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
Toward a functional ecology of behavior and development: The legacy of Joachim F. Wohlwill Harry Heft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
Part II. Exposition of theoretical perspectives
Introduction Günter Mey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	113
A. Levels of relationship – As they appear in different cultures
Introduction Dietmar Görlitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
A dialectical/transactional framework of social relations: Children in secondary territories Carol M. Werner and Irwin Altman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
Comment: Proving philosophy!? Ute Ritterfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
Authors’ response: Translating a world view Carol M. Werner and Irwin Altman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	162
A contextualist perspective on child-environment relations Theodore D. Wachs and Noam Shpancer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	164
Comment: Clarifying fusion Siegfried Hoppe-Graff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
Child development and environment: A constructivist perspective Thomas Bernhard Seiler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
Comment: Constructivist potentialities and limitations Siegfried Hoppe-Graff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	226
Author’s response: Following Aristotle Thomas Bernhard Seiler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
Integration: What environment? Which relationship? Isolda de Araújo Günther and Hartmut Günther Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	237
Β. Transactional, holistic, and relational-developmental perspectives on children in the cities
Introduction Hans Joachim Harloff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
Transactionalism Rolf Oerter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
Comment: Transactionalism – What could it be? Alfred Lang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
Author’s response: Is Lang going beyond? Rolf Oerter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	276
A holistic, developmental, systems-oriented perspective: Child-environment relations Seymour Wapner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	278
Comment: Werner augmented Dietmar Görlitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
Relational-developmental theory: A psychological perspective Willis F. Overton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	315
Comment: From the general to the individual or from the individual to the general? Werner Deutsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	336
Author’s response: General and individual – A relation Willis F. Overton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	342
Integration: Dimensions of a conceptual space – But for what? Hellgard Rauh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	344
C. Modern versions of Barker’s ecological psychology and the phenomenological perspective
Introduction Günter Mey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	355
Children’s environments: The phenomenological approach Carl F. Graumann and Lenelis Kruse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
Comment: Don’t forget the subjects – An approach against environmentalism Katja Mruck and Günter Mey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	370
Authors’ response: Reading a text – A case study in perspectivity Carl F. Graumann and Lenelis Kruse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	380
Commentators’ reply: Seductive sciences Katja Mruck and Günter Mey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	382
Behavior settings in macroenvironments: Implications for the design and analysis of places John L. Cotterell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	383
Comment: Behavior setting revitalized Barbara Hinding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	405
Behavior settings as vehicles of children’s cultivation Urs Fuhrer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411
Comment: Behavior settings forever! Hans Joachim Harloff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	435
Integration: Ecological psychology and phenomenology – Their commonality, differences, and interrelations Hirofumi Minami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	442
D. Sociobiology, attachment theory, and ecological psychology – Marching towards the city
Introduction Jaan Valsiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	451
Exploratory behavior, place attachment, genius loci, and childhood concepts: Elements of understanding children’s interactions with their environments Heidi Keller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	455
Comment: Gender are two Antje Flade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	469
Author’s response:... but different ones Heidi Keller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	475
Children in cities: An ethological/sociobiological approach William R. Charlesworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	476
Comment: And ethology? Alain Legendre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	504
Author’s response: Adaptive variations and the individual William R. Charlesworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	512
Street traffic, children, and the extended concept of affordance as a means of shaping the environment Wolf-D. Heine and Rainer Guski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	514
Comment: Children as perceivers and actors – The view from ecological realism Christian Munz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	543
Authors’ response: Environmental design means the design of affordances Wolf-D. Heine and Rainer Guski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	551
Commentator’s reply: The extended concept reconsidered Christian Munz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	554
Integration: The path to integration is not straight Tommy Gärling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	555
Reflections: What has happened in treading the path toward a psychological theory of children and their cities Günter Mey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	561
Part III. The Finale
Integrating youth- and context-focused research and outreach: A developmental contextual model Richard M. Lerner and Alexander von Eye Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	573
The young and the old in the city: Developing intergenerational relationships in urban environments Frieder R. Lang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	598
Where we are – A discussion Bettina Koböck, Dietmar Görlitz, Hans Joachim Harloff, Günter Mey and Jaan Valsiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	629
Appendix
Biographical notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	647
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	655
Author index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	675

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eBook published on:

October 25, 2012

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9783110885194

Hardcover published on:

June 16, 1998

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110146035

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Reprint 2012

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Front matter:

11

Main content:

688

Illustrations:

37

Tables:

5

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110885194

eBook ISBN: 9783110885194

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110146035

Keywords for this book

Stadtkind; Entwicklungspsychologie; Aufsatzsammlung; Ökologische Psychologie; Soziobiologie

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