The Ecology of development

United States, 1992

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Episode number 2 of Series “The Worlds of childhood”.
Factors such as biological inheritance, temperament, caregiving, family, peers, schooling, culture and history are introduced. Four levels of the environment are defined and illustrated: microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem and macrosystem. We meet twelve families from five countries whose lives we share throughout the series.

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Credits

director

Darrel Schwandt

producer

George A. Colburn

production company

DLGHS

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Duration

00:25:00:00

Production places
United States
Production dates
1992

Appears in

The Worlds of childhood

Group of items

The Worlds of childhood

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

306085

Language

English

Subject categories

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - United States

Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Child development

Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Children

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Child development

People → Colburn, George A.

People → Schwandt, Darrel M.

Short films

Short films → Short films - United States

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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