UID:
almafu_9958355049802883
Format:
1 online resource (688p.)
ISBN:
9783110885194
Series Statement:
International Studies on Childhood and Adolescence ; 5
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Keynote --
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Foreword --
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How it all began – Background to this book --
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Part I. Prelude and dedication --
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Themes in the relation between children and the city --
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Children’s life worlds in urban environments --
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Toward a functional ecology of behavior and development: The legacy of Joachim F. Wohlwill --
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Part II. Exposition of theoretical perspectives --
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Introduction --
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A. Levels of relationship – As they appear in different cultures --
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Introduction --
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A dialectical/transactional framework of social relations: Children in secondary territories --
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Comment: Proving philosophy!? --
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Authors’ response: Translating a world view --
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A contextualist perspective on child-environment relations --
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Comment: Clarifying fusion --
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Child development and environment: A constructivist perspective --
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Comment: Constructivist potentialities and limitations --
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Author’s response: Following Aristotle --
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Integration: What environment? Which relationship? --
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Β. Transactional, holistic, and relational-developmental perspectives on children in the cities --
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Introduction --
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Transactionalism --
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Comment: Transactionalism – What could it be? --
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Author’s response: Is Lang going beyond? --
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A holistic, developmental, systems-oriented perspective: Child-environment relations --
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Comment: Werner augmented --
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Relational-developmental theory: A psychological perspective --
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Comment: From the general to the individual or from the individual to the general? --
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Author’s response: General and individual – A relation --
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Integration: Dimensions of a conceptual space – But for what? --
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C. Modern versions of Barker’s ecological psychology and the phenomenological perspective --
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Introduction --
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Children’s environments: The phenomenological approach --
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Comment: Don’t forget the subjects – An approach against environmentalism --
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Authors’ response: Reading a text – A case study in perspectivity --
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Commentators’ reply: Seductive sciences --
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Behavior settings in macroenvironments: Implications for the design and analysis of places --
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Comment: Behavior setting revitalized --
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Behavior settings as vehicles of children’s cultivation --
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Comment: Behavior settings forever! --
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Integration: Ecological psychology and phenomenology – Their commonality, differences, and interrelations --
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D. Sociobiology, attachment theory, and ecological psychology – Marching towards the city --
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Introduction --
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Exploratory behavior, place attachment, genius loci, and childhood concepts: Elements of understanding children’s interactions with their environments --
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Comment: Gender are two --
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Author’s response:... but different ones --
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Children in cities: An ethological/sociobiological approach --
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Comment: And ethology? --
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Author’s response: Adaptive variations and the individual --
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Street traffic, children, and the extended concept of affordance as a means of shaping the environment --
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Comment: Children as perceivers and actors – The view from ecological realism --
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Authors’ response: Environmental design means the design of affordances --
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Commentator’s reply: The extended concept reconsidered --
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Integration: The path to integration is not straight --
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Reflections: What has happened in treading the path toward a psychological theory of children and their cities --
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Part III. The Finale --
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Integrating youth- and context-focused research and outreach: A developmental contextual model --
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The young and the old in the city: Developing intergenerational relationships in urban environments --
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Where we are – A discussion --
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Appendix --
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Biographical notes --
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Subject index --
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Author index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-014603-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110885194
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110885194
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110885194