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Ecological Systems Theory - Coggle Diagram
Ecological Systems Theory
Meso system
Connections between microsystems, student-teacher, Family Day Care, Schools
interconnected community of people surrounding a child
Student-Teacher Parent
acts as an intermediate space where the various microsystems such as the family, the school, the peer group, etc. interact with one another →influence the individual
Analogy: a house and the various micro systems as rooms within the house , good connection →better opportunities and support
The Microsystem
Consists of cultural values, laws, customs, and resources.
gives to the needs of the children and adults affects the support they receive at inner levels of the environment
Excosystem
consists of social settings that do not contain the developing person but nevertheless affect experiences in immediate settings
formal organizations, like management in the individuals workplace, religious institution, or community health and welfare services
can be informal
are affected by their parents social networks - friends and extended-family members who provide advice, companionship and even financial assistance
Examples
Mass Media
Teacher- Training Institutes
Local Governments
Parents Jobs
Parents, Friends
Microsystem
intimate personal connections formed with the child, small circle as it deeply influences the system of thinking
Examples
Parents
shape role in child's personality as their connection is essential for the social and emotional development of an infant
school
shape child's social and emotional development; as it allows children to form the strongest and most impact bonds outside the family
responsible for the moral, ethical, emotional, and social development of children
religion
provides traditions of codes of conduct that guide people on how to live their lives
Peer Group
influential in shaping their values, beliefs, tastes, and preferences
consists of activities and interaction patterns in persons immediate surroundings
Chronosystem
Technology, Birth of a sibling, wars and calamities
incorporates the effect of time on the development of the individual
is the key of all the factors, events, and circumstances occuring over the lifetime of an individual that affect his/her psycho-social development
compromises both normative life transitions (graduating, marriage, birth of a child) and non-normative transitions (accidents, winning a lottery, parental divorce)
Ecological Systems Theory
People are both product and producers of their environments