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As Chapter 3 of the course text highlights, there are many different theories—of both human development and management—that may influence how a child development program is run and what decisions a program administrator makes. In the realm of human development, theories can be categorized into several different types: maturationist, behaviorist/environmentalists, interactionist, and ecological. Within each type, certain theorists have developed specific ideas on how and why humans develop the way that they do: Piaget, Vygotsky, Erikson, Bronfenbrenner, Gardner, and B. F. Skinner are a few notable examples. In the management realm, there also are a variety of theories that explain the process of managing organizations and people. These include the classical view, the modern perspective, the symbolic-interpretative view, and the postmodern perspective. In recent years, scholar D. J. Lemak has argued that these theories can be grouped into paradigms, depending on their interpretations of key management concepts: the classical paradigm, the behavioral paradigm, and the systems paradigm. Finally, Chapter 3 also provides an overview of the ecological systems framework method for understanding social and biological systems, including child development centers.