...than begin with a formal exposition, I shall first introduce this concept by some concrete examples. The ecological environment is conceived as a set of...immediate setting containing the developing person. This can be the home, the classroom, or as often happens for research purposes — the laboratory or...

...influences originate (Garbarino & Plantz, 1981). Bronfenbrenner describes the individual's environment as "a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls" (1979, p. 22). As we ask and answer questions about development at one level, this ecological framework...

...of picture we wish could rise from these pages. Bronfenbrenner envisions the ecological environment as "a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of nested dolls" (1979b:3). In his model, the innermost level or ring includes the developing person in...

...short or the long term. In other words, it depends. Bronfenbrenner sees the individual's experience "as a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls" (Bronfenbrenner, 1979, p. 22). In asking and answering questions about developmental risk and opportunity,...

...proposed by Urie Bronfenbrenner. He proposes that development can best be conceptualized as a series of "nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls," with each structure affecting the rest of the nested structures. The immediate setting, the microsystem,...

...perspective, we see the individual's experiences as subsystems within systems, within larger systems, "as a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls" (Bronfenbrenner, 1979, p. 22). In asking and answering questions about development, we can and should...

...various systems levels. Bronfenbrenner (1979) conceptualized the nature of the ecological environment as "a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls" (p. 22). He further described an individual's environment as a hierarchy of systems at four levels...

...1992) model of development within a series of contexts. Bronfenbrenner has described the environment as "a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls" (1979:3). Ecological systems theory has its roots in Lewin's ( 1 935) field theory. Lewin argued that...

...Bronfenbrenner, we see the individual's experiences as subsystems within systems within larger systems "as a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls" (Bronfenbrenner, 1979, p. 22). In asking and answering questions about development, we can and should...

...conceptualized initially by Urie Bronfenbrenner (1979) as subsystems within systems within larger systems, "as a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls" (p. 22). The two most distal levels of the environment are the macrosystem and the exosystem. The macrosystem,...