Child Called It Paper
Uri Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model of Dave Pelzer (A Child Called It)
Choronosystem (1 example)
Dave’s parent’s become more separate (pg. 61)
Macrosystem (3 examples)
Dave’s Mother was so happy to actually have a family…until she lost it (pg. 18)
Exosystem (5 examples)
Neighbors:
Den mother did not notice Dave’s need for help (pg. 27)
Social Services:
Police Officer comes to meet with Dave (pg. 10-11)
Dave is taken into custody (pg. 13)
Education System:
School Nurse takes notes and looks at all of Dave’s cuts and bruises (pg. 8)
Teacher’s were told to pay not attention to Dave’s “lies” (pg. 33)
Mesosystem (2 examples)
Healthcare to Home:
School nurse takes notes but doesn’t confront Dave’s parents (pg. 9)
Doctor didn’t report Dave’s mother even though he did not believe her story of how Dave broke his arm (pg. 25)
School to Home:
Principal doesn’t call Dave’s mother anymore (pg. 10)
Microsystem (8 examples)
Teacher:
Substitute teacher joins in with the humiliation of Dave (pg. 10)
Peers:
At school they reject Dave (pg. 10)
Family/Home:
Brother’s shrugged what was happening to Dave off (pg. 22)
Mother switched from “corner treatment” to “mirror treatment” (pg. 21)
Father didn’t say anything about how Dave really broke his arm (pg. 25)
Uri Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model does a great job of helping to display that child abuse is not an issue that is isolated to the home, but rather a problem that can be confronted on multiple levels. Through his use of a “target-like” diagram, he is able to show that each systems builds on each other and are interrelated. Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model consists of five, linked systems, the Chronosystem, the Macrosystem, the Exosystem, the Mesosystem, and the Microsystem. To better understand Bronfenbrenner’s model, a walk through each layer of the model using explanations and examples from Dave Pelzer’s memoir, A Child Called “It”(Pelzer, 1995) is necessary. With the
Choronosystem (1 example)
Dave’s parent’s become more separate (pg. 61)
Macrosystem (3 examples)
Dave’s Mother was so happy to actually have a family…until she lost it (pg. 18)
Exosystem (5 examples)
Neighbors:
Den mother did not notice Dave’s need for help (pg. 27)
Social Services:
Police Officer comes to meet with Dave (pg. 10-11)
Dave is taken into custody (pg. 13)
Education System:
School Nurse takes notes and looks at all of Dave’s cuts and bruises (pg. 8)
Teacher’s were told to pay not attention to Dave’s “lies” (pg. 33)
Mesosystem (2 examples)
Healthcare to Home:
School nurse takes notes but doesn’t confront Dave’s parents (pg. 9)
Doctor didn’t report Dave’s mother even though he did not believe her story of how Dave broke his arm (pg. 25)
School to Home:
Principal doesn’t call Dave’s mother anymore (pg. 10)
Microsystem (8 examples)
Teacher:
Substitute teacher joins in with the humiliation of Dave (pg. 10)
Peers:
At school they reject Dave (pg. 10)
Family/Home:
Brother’s shrugged what was happening to Dave off (pg. 22)
Mother switched from “corner treatment” to “mirror treatment” (pg. 21)
Father didn’t say anything about how Dave really broke his arm (pg. 25)
Uri Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model does a great job of helping to display that child abuse is not an issue that is isolated to the home, but rather a problem that can be confronted on multiple levels. Through his use of a “target-like” diagram, he is able to show that each systems builds on each other and are interrelated. Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model consists of five, linked systems, the Chronosystem, the Macrosystem, the Exosystem, the Mesosystem, and the Microsystem. To better understand Bronfenbrenner’s model, a walk through each layer of the model using explanations and examples from Dave Pelzer’s memoir, A Child Called “It”(Pelzer, 1995) is necessary. With the