Conceiving the environment from a developmental perspective: Revisiting Roger G. Barker's comparison of Bobby Bryant and Raymond Birch

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Abstract

This chapter has two interrelated aims: first, it aims to widen Heft's important contribution to “a concept of the environment from a psychological perspective”; second, it aims to investigate the potentials of “child-environment variability” for developmental paths. For the first aim, we address Heft's 1988 paper “Affordances of children's environments: A functional approach to environmental description.” For the second (interrelated) aim, we examine what it means for a child to live an everyday life with a physical disability, in comparison with a child who lives with no physical disability.
Translated title of the contributionBehavior Objects og defektologi (foreløbig titel): Hvem har handicap? (foreløbig titel)
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPlaces, Sociality, and Ecological Psychology : Essays in Honor of Harry Heft
EditorsMiguel Segundo-Ortin, Manuel Heras-Escribano, Vicente Raja
Number of pages13
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date2023
Chapter5
ISBN (Print)9781032194516
ISBN (Electronic)9781003259244
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

Keywords

  • Økologisk psykologi
  • Kulturhistorisk psykologi
  • Handikap-psykologi
  • Omgivelser

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