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Bronfenbrenner: Ecological Systems Theory - Coggle Diagram
Bronfenbrenner: Ecological Systems Theory
Microsystem
The most direct environment around the child
Face to face setting
Most direct interaction
Influences the child physically
For example, family, peers, school and neighbourhood
Mesosytem
Relationship between microsystems or connection between contexts
Child's relationships between neighborhood, school, family and peers. And also the connections between:
Neighborhood <---> School
School <---> Family
Family <---> Peers
Peers to Neighborhood
Exosystem
Social settings in which the child is NOT directly involved but is directly affected by
Example: Mass media, friends of family, neighbours, legal services, social welfare services
Macrosystem
political systems
nationality
society
economics
attitudes and ideologies of the culture
Examples: families, school, government, religious organisations (culture in which the child lives in)
Values, Cultural belief systems
Chronosystem
Considers changes that occur over the course of a lifetime
Patterns of environmental events and transitions; and socio-historical circumstances that affects the child development
This model provides an approach to child-family-community interconnections which focuses on the lives of families and children