Bronfenbrenner ecological theory

1. Bronfenbrenner Ecological
Theory

2. Urie Bronfenbenner

3. Urie Bronfenbenner
 Russian Born
 American Developmental Psychologist
 April 29, 1917 – Sept. 25, 2005
 Dr. Alexander Brofenbrenner and
Kamenetski Brofenbrenner

4. Key Question: How does the world
around the child help or hinder
development?

5. Ecological Theory

6. 5 Environmental System
1. Microsystem
2. Mesosystem
3. Exosystem
4. Macrosystem
5. Chronosystem

7. Microsytem
 The system closest to the person and
the one in which they have direct
contact.

8. Mesosystem
 The interactions between the different
parts of a person’s microsystem.
 Interactions between the family and teachers
 Relationship between the child’s peers and the
family

9. Exosystem
 A setting that does not involve the
person as an active participant, but
still affects them.
◦ Parent’s workplace

10. Macrosystem
 The cultural environment in which the
person lives and all other systems that
affect them.
◦ Provides the values, beliefs, customs, and
laws of the culture in which a child grows
up
 Influences how parents, teachers, and others
raise a child
 May be positive or negative

11. Chronosystem
 The dimension of time in relation to a
person’s development.