Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model

Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory is how a child’s development affected by their social relationship and the world around them. He believed that a person’s surrounding environment affects their development. There are five different levels of a person’s environment which includes: the microsystem, the mesosystem, the exosystem, the macrosystem, and the chronosystem. The microsystem involves a pattern of interpersonal relationships, activities and roles in particular settings. The mesosystem is the connections of two or more of the child’s microsystems. The exosystem is the connection between two or more setting. The macrosystem is how society has an impact on child’s values, policies, beliefs, customs, and culture. Lastly the chronosystem is the effect of time or the impact of historical context on the other interlocking systems (Bojczyk et al., 2012). It is important for parents to know about the system to know how the development of the child progresses. Parent’s expectations are high when it comes to their children. Upon entering the classroom, parents expect that their child should farther alone than what they actually are. In this paper, I will inform the parents

The individual child is surrounded by family, school and the people that attend, religious and other groups of people, and neighbors in the neighborhood; this is the developmental stage in child’s microsystem. The child’s environment is surrounded by the people that come in contact with him or her. When child moves into the mesosystem they take at least two of the components in the microsystem. “Bronfenbrenner believed that in order to fully support the child there needs to be communication and positive interactions between the parents and other important people who have interactions with the child (Bojczyk et al.,