Urie Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model Of Microsystem

Ecological Model Theoretical Connection

A microsystem is represented as the first environmental an individual encounters, for example a child’s family, teachers, and friends at school. Relationships in this system are bi-directional. In the book Readings on the Development of Children, authors Mary Gauvain & Michael Cole explains Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory further into detail. The chapter “Ecological Models of Human Development” the authors explain that a child’s reaction to the people in their microsystem will affect how they are treated in return. (Gauvain, 2008) At the Center for Child Development, the student’s microsystem consists of their parents, the teachers, volunteers and lab students. The interpersonal connection that they have with each group of people takes place on a day to day basis.
The mesosystem is the connections between the microsystem and the individual. For example, when working with the CDC, on would notice that the students mesosystem would consist of the interaction and communication that the parents have with the
(Gauvain, 2008) As children get older, they may react differently to environmental changes and may be more able to determine more how that change will influence them. Last year at the CDC one of the lead teachers gave birth to her son, she is currently pregnant again with her second child. Within a few months she give birth again; this upcoming chance will have either a positive or negative impact on her child’s life. Another example of this system could be the divorce of a child’s parents; as a major life transition it may affect not only the couple's relationship but also their children's behavior. Children are negatively affected especially during the first year after the divorce. The years after would either reveal if the interaction with the family becomes more stable and