...shall first introduce this concept by some concrete examples. The ecological environment is conceived as a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls. At the innermost level is the immediate setting containing the developing person. This can be the home,...

...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...

...development by including the individual as an active biopsychological system in his or her own right. Bronfenbrenner sees the individual's experience "as a set of nested structures, each outside the next, like a set of Russian dolls" (p. 22). Beyond the individual's biopsychological representation...

...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,...1979, p. 22). In asking and answering questions about development, we can and should always be ready to look at the next level of systems "beyond" and "within"...

...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...

...Bronfenbrenner, we see the individual's experiences as subsystems within systems within larger systems "as a set of nested structures, each inside the next,...1979, p. 22). In asking and answering questions about development, we can and should always be ready to look at the next level of systems beyond and within...

...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...

...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,...