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Yes, you can access Children, Cities, and Psychological Theories by Dietmar Görlitz, Hans Joachim Harloff, Günter Mey, Jaan Valsiner, Dietmar Görlitz,Hans Joachim Harloff,Günter Mey,Jaan Valsiner in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Developmental Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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

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