Sentences with phrase «testing ecological theory»

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«Ecological theory,» as advanced by renowned developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner, emphasizes the multiple, interdependent «ecologies,» or environmental systems, in which children develop.67 In this theory, which has been tested and confirmed by numerous studies, the most important ecologies for children are the «microsystems» — those ecologies that contain the direct relationships children have with caring adults.