Urie Bronfenbrenner was a Russian-born American psychologist best known for using a contextual framework to better understand human development.
15 Facts About Urie Bronfenbrenner
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Urie Bronfenbrenner argued that natural experiments and applied developmental interventions provide valuable scientific opportunities.
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Urie Bronfenbrenner was born in Moscow on April 29,1917, to Russian Jewish parents, the pathologist Alexander Urie Bronfenbrenner and Eugenie Kamenetski.
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Urie Bronfenbrenner received a bachelor's in psychology and music from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1938.
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Urie Bronfenbrenner earned a master's in education from Harvard in 1940, and a doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of Michigan in 1942.
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Urie Bronfenbrenner entered the US military the day after receiving his doctorate, going on to serve as a psychologist in various military bodies during World War II.
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Urie Bronfenbrenner was appointed to a federal panel about development in impoverished children around 1964 and 1965, with this panel helping in the creation of Head Start in 1965.
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Urie Bronfenbrenner wrote over 300 research papers and 14 books, and achieved the title of Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Human Development at Cornell University.
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Urie Bronfenbrenner was married to Liese Price and had six children.
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Urie Bronfenbrenner died at his home in Ithaca, New York, on September 25,2005, at the age of 88, due to complications with diabetes.
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Urie Bronfenbrenner saw the process of human development as being shaped by the interaction between an individual and their environment.
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Urie Bronfenbrenner later accounted for the influence of time, such as specific events and changes in culture over time, by adding the chronosystem to the theory.
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In 1964 Urie Bronfenbrenner testified before a congressional hearing about an antipoverty bill, stating that measures should be directed towards children in order to reduce the effects of poverty on developing persons.
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Urie Bronfenbrenner worked with 12 other professionals from various fields such as mental and physical health, education, social work, and developmental psychology.
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Urie Bronfenbrenner convinced the panel to focus efforts on involving a child's family and community in the intervention effort, so as to expand the program to focus on the creation of a better environment for development.