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An introductory family science course built on Bronfenbrenner’s ecological framework

by Lawrence G. Shelton, Ph.D., Human Development & Family Studies, University of Vermont

Over the past two decades, our HDFS program at the University of Vermont has evolved an introductory family course. The approach began when the late Armin Grams decided to use Urie Bronfenbrenner’s 1979 book, The Ecology of Human Development, as the core text.

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