Urie Brofenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory/Environmental Context


 

Urie Brofenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory/Environmental Context

 

-       Learning is greatly affected by the kind of environment we are in.

-       Learners are understood within the context of their environment.

 

Environmental Context: Major Levels

1.    Microsystem

-       Innermost level contains the structure that has direct contact with child

 

2.    Mesosystem

-       Connections between the structures of the child’s microsystem

 

3.    Exosystem

-       3rd level of social systems which indirectly affects the child

 

4.    Macrosystem

-       Outermost level in which all other systems are embedded such as values, customs, laws, beliefs, and resources of a society

 

5.    Chronosystem

-       This system includes changes or consistencies in person’s lifespan.