Urie Bronfenbrenner papers

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, news clippings, reviews, professional writings, lectures, material from the White House Conference on Children, vita, bibliographies, subject files, and other papers relating to the career of Urie Bronfenbrenner, including educational videocassettes.

Also, a tape recording of a discussion about child development between Urie Bronfenbrenner and citizens of Clifton Springs, New York, in June, 1970, and a phonodisc "The Impact of Peers."

Includes an interview with Bronfenbrenner, Joy D. Osofsky and John Condry.

Subject files relating to daycare issues, mother/father/infant relationships, adoption, and family issues, with reference to these subjects in Japan, the U.S.S.R., Norway, China, Hungary, Germany, Turkey, Israel, etc.

Includes awards and films "Three Worlds of Childhood" and "Center for Improvement of Undergraduate Education: HDFS 115 Study".

Dates

1960 - 2011

Creator

Bronfenbrenner, Urie, 1917-2005. (Person)
Bronfenbrenner, Urie, 1917-2005. (Person)
Osofsky, Joy D. (Person)
Condry, John C. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Cornell University.

Urie Bronfenbrenner was born in Moscow, Russia on April 29, 1917 and moved to the United States six years later. He attended Cornell University where he double majored in psychology and music in 1938. He received his M.A. at Harvard and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1942. That same year he was inducted into the Army where he served as a psychologist in the Air Corps and the Office of Strategic Services and then served in the Army Medical Corps. In 1948 he accepted a position in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Cornell. He did extensive research and writings in the field of human development, international comparisons of child rearing, and his development of the theories of Human Ecology and the Bioecological Model. He was one of the founding members of Head Start. He received six honorary degrees, and was awarded numerous awards, including in 1996 the first American Psychological Association Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the service of Science and Society.

Extent

29.9 cubic feet.

Additional Description

Abstract

SERIES LIST

Series I. Subject Files, Lecture Notes, Trip Files

Boxes 1-8, 13, 26, 27, 30

Series II. Grant Files

Boxes 13

Series III. Published Works

Boxes 9-12, 16-18, 25

Series IV. Correspondence Files

Boxes 18-20, 26, 30

Series V. Researcher Files

Boxes 20-23, 27

Series VI. Audiotapes and Sound Recordings

Boxes 23-24

Series VII. Videotapes and Films

Boxes 24, 32

Series VIII. Interviews

Boxes 25-26

Series IX. Programs of Interest and/or Involvement for Bronfenbrenner

Box 26

Series X. Statistics Figures (Paper and Transperency Copies)

Boxes 26

Series XI. Articles in which Bronfenbrenner is Cited or Quoted

Boxes 26-27

Series XII. Awards

Boxes 14-15,30, Mapcase Folder 1

Series XIII. Biographical

Boxes 1,3,26,30

Series XIV. Photographs

Boxes 1,30

RELATED MATERIALS

The videotaped lecture given by Professor Bronfenbrenner, The American Family, Who Cares? from the Media Services records, #21-36-2566 has been digitized and can be found on Cornell's Library Media Space website along with other related films.

Physical Description

Correspondence, news clippings, reviews, professional writings, lectures, vita, bibliographies, and other papers relating to the career of Urie Bronfenbrenner, including educational videocassettes.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: Staff
Date completed:: N/A
EAD encoding:: Peter Martinez, July 2004
Date modified:: RMC Staff, September 2018