University of Delaware.
Temple University.
Child Dev. 2017 Sep;88(5):1403-1408. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12929. Epub 2017 Aug 15.
Urie Bronfenbrenner and Ernest Boyer argued for leaving the laboratory to conduct rigorous developmental research in the real world where children are found-in the places they go. Contributions to this special issue meet Bronfenbrenner and Boyer's call while at the same time recognizing the continued importance of laboratory research. These articles range from a review of research on the arts to a language intervention in Senegal to large-scale dissemination and intervention projects designed to communicate the best developmental science to families, public agencies, and schools. Together these articles illustrate how we can study development in the world and enrich our work on the factors that promote development. Taking this path presents us with a set of additional hurdles to be addressed, such as how to communicate with the public and how to scale up our interventions in the face of diversity along many dimensions.
乌里·布朗芬布伦纳和欧内斯特·博耶主张离开实验室，到儿童所在的真实世界——他们活动的场所——进行严格的发展研究。本期特刊中的文章回应了布朗芬布伦纳和博耶的呼吁，同时也认识到实验室研究的持续重要性。这些文章的范围从对艺术研究的综述，到塞内加尔的语言干预，再到旨在向家庭、公共机构和学校传播最佳发展科学的大规模传播和干预项目。这些文章共同说明了我们如何在世界范围内研究发展，并丰富我们对促进发展因素的研究。走这条路给我们带来了一系列需要解决的额外障碍，例如如何与公众沟通，以及如何在面对多方面多样性的情况下扩大我们的干预措施。
