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Introduction

 Urie Bronfenbrenner was a Russian-born American psychologist who is most


known for his ecological systems theory. He was born in Russia on April 29, 1917
and died in America on September 25, 2005.  
 Bronfenbrenner completed a double major in psychology and music at Cornell in
1938 and a PhD in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1942. He
worked as a clinical psychologist in the U.S. Army and as a professor at the
university of Michigan and at Cornell. He was co-founder of the Head Start
program situated in United States that provides education to under privileged
children.

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