Bronfenbrenner : Theoretical Frameworks

The importance of the environment lies in the belief that children can best create meaning and make sense of their world through environments which support complex, varied, sustained, and changing relationships between people, the world of experience, ideas and the many ways of expressing ideas. The pre-schools tend to be filled with indoor plants and vines, and awash with natural light. Classrooms open to a central piazza, kitchens are open to view and access to the surrounding community is assured through wall sized windows, courtyards, and doors to the outside in each classroom.

I sometimes watch a show called “Roseanne”. In this show there are three children and a mother and a father. In the show the mother was working two jobs and the father worked one. The children were home a lot to fin for themselves. In this episode I saw several parts of the Bioecological Model of Human Development. If we look at the microsystems there are several components. Which were the child, family, school and the community. In the episode the mom had to go and interact with the school (Mesosystem) because one of the children were not behaving in school. The teacher made an assumption about of the child’s behavior and thought that the child was acting out due to the parents not getting along. The mother in the show got mad and took it out on the teacher which in turn created negativity in the child’s eyes because the teacher was

The school environment is one that yields great skill and knowledge if taken seriously. In such a place, there is a constant flow of learning from all areas of the spectrum. Schools teach their students important social skills and how to interact with their peers. This art is one that should be mastered by adulthood and proves helpful when entering a career. Clearly, any school setting is equipped to provide its students with the opportunity to learn. This very action almost directly correlates with the success of the student in the future. Our society is currently one

The students received most instruction from the ESE support teacher. This is his first year in a general education class, in years past he was in an ESE class. However, intellectually he is not prepared for the pass of the curriculum but socially he benefits from the general education class. In addition is also is dealing with a divorce. The student is vocal about worries, and is melancholy. This student is an example of Urie Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory. Urie Bronfenbrenner was a children’s socioemotional development theorist that “address the social contexts in which children develop” (Santrock, p.71). The ecological theory “focuses on the social contexts in which children live and the people who influence their development” (Santrock, p.71). Bronfenbrenner’s theory consists of five environments systems, which are microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem. I argued this because the student’s microsystem includes his teacher, peers, parents and family. The student’s exosystem includes the legal services, social welfare services and friends of family. The mesosystem links the student’s microsystem to the exosystem. For instance, one mesosystem is the school he attends because the student’s counselors and teachers provide the legal services within his IEP. This student’s macrosystem is his broad culture comprised of his Hispanic ethnicity and socio economic class. Also, the student’s chronosystem includes the students past. For example, this student’s past consists of discovering his disability and his parent divorce. All of these systems effect this child’s learning tremendously and shape him socially and intellectually. His teachers and counselors have to evaluate each system to find the best way for the student to achieve

Bronfenbrenner stressed the importance of studying a child in the context of his multiple environments through the ecological systems in the attempt to understand his individual development.

In the example using the preschool substitution for parental interactivity idea, there are other factors to consider that foster the educational environment of learning such as educational level of the parents, access to health care, the amount of green space, the danger to safety ratio and the number of parents in the home with still further relationship determinants to review. The students have so many factors that may or may not act in their lives, affordances as taught by James Gibson. The truth of the matter remains that in this theological concept that the environment can only provide assistance to the extent to which the actor uses the environmental

Bronfenbrenner defines the microsystem as the small environment in which a child is living in. The microsystem in which I grew up in consisted of two nurturing parents. My father worked outside of the home and my mother was out caregiver. She was there to encourage our behavior and redirect the negative behavior in our lives. This affected the outcome and development from my parents because there was no daycare involved in my live. I did not have parent and teacher conference when I was in school. My parents would use my report card as communication. My grades would reflect my performances at school. My cultural background

Now lets turn focus on the economic factors in a community. Bronfenbrenner (1994), discusses how a person's environment plays a heavy role in socialization. Children raised in families with different economic resources likely respond differently to the social environment in which they are immersed. Children who grow up in wealthy environments can afford services they need versus poverty level families have very little financial support. Children who grow up in a wealthy family are most likely to have healthy hygiene because they afford the materials required for a clean personal care.

The Bronfenbrenner model offers an ecological approach to the development of children, which conceptualises the maturing individual in relation to a changing environment. It ties together a multi-layered set of environmental systems that influence child development with different degrees of directness. This model is graphically displayed as an array of rings that surround the developing child. The rings are arranged from the system of contextual influences closest to the developing child to those whose impact is indirect. By utilising Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model, I am able to identify how my experience in school leadership fits into each layer and how it has ultimately affected my learning and development.

The mesosystem includes two or more setting that the child participates in, such as family, school, peers, religion affiliation, work place, and neighborhoods that impacts the child. One aspect of Bob’s mesosystem would be the relationship that his parents and his teachers have. His parents take an active part of Bob’s schooling because they like to drop him off every morning together and they make sure they can help out as much as possible with Bob’s activities. By this occurring, it makes a positive impact on Bob’s physical and emotional

Urie Bronfenbrenner was a Russian-born American psychologist and is best known for his ecological system in the development of a child where he defines the four concentric systems that are the micro-, the meso-, the exo- and the macrosystems. He later added a time-related fifth system, the chronosystem. Bronfenbrenner is revered as one of the leading world authorities in the field of development psychology. The following essay will have an in-depth explanation of Bronfenbrenner’s theory and a few examples.

“We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher 's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.”

Highly effective teachers are able to help expand children’s knowledge and comfortability in social, personal, and moral development. Urie Bronfenbrenner’s biological model of human development really focuses on the personal and social development. The microsystem is the area that has the most influence on everyone. For most kids the microsystem often includes many school factors. Teachers can have a great influence on students and we must be aware of this and the impacts that our actions can have. As you move out on Bronfenbrenner’s model to the to the mesosystem, ecosystem, and macro system the influences on the student become less significant, but they still have an impact. A teacher must prepare students for these other areas, and how to

The majority of Cristina’s difficulties in the school setting stem from her home life. The bioecological model of development created by Urie Bronfenbrenner is used to recognize the physical and social context that an ecosystem provides due to the consistent interaction and influences of one another within that system. (Woolfolk p. 76) Cristina’s microsystem is what her world center’s around both inside and outside of the classroom, it is shaping her into the student that she is now and will continue to be unless

In Vygotsky’s theory of social and cultural influences, he emphasized his theory through three important themes: Culture, Language and Zone of Proximal Growth (ZPG). With culture, adolescents in the fourth division of education begin to integrate with people of different cultures. It gives them the advantage to listen to different beliefs, values, norms and attitudes of other people. It will have the student thinking and how he or she can understand a given theory. Second is language, the main component when it comes to communication. Similar to culture except learning through symbols, logic and sign language. For example: Janice is deaf, she may be unable to hear but can communicate with sign language and gestures. In the Zone of Proximal Growth, the student cannot do a task without the guidance of a supporter.