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Hey folks, this is Brad Stucki, and
I'm excited to be here to share

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with you a little bit of the things
that I've learned from this particular

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theorist. I signed up for Urie 
Bronfenbrenner and his

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bioecological theory of child
development, and we've talked

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about this a little bit already
in class, and so I'm excited to

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build on what we've already
talked about. So here we go.

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I'd like to start by sharing a little
bit of the overview of what

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Bronfenbrenner taught and 
what he studied. His work focuses

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on the development of the child
with their environment, and so

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it shows how the child interacts
with different systems and different

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people, and how it affects them to
become who they end up being--

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who their individual person is.
So we'll go ahead and we'll just

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jump right into it. Okay, so the 
first system is the microsystem.

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This is the most simple. It is the
child interactions with their family,

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with their peers, it is their individual,
personal relationships that they have

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with one another that shape them
into who they are and who they become.

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And so an example of this would be
the child learning from their parents

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or from their teachers. It may be them
picking up their different social cues,

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their laugh. It could be just observing 
the parent, or listening to what they say

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and copying those same standards
and so it's just the interaction

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between those two-- the child 
and the parent, or the child and

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their teacher, the child and their
friends-- that helps them develop

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into their individual person.
Okay, so the next one-- oh, so actually,

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every time we talk about a system
I'm just gonna lay down a line that

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has the definition of it, and I'll just
reiterate what it says, and so the

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microsystem is just an interaction
or support between the individual

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and their direct relationship,
like their parents.

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So the next system is the 
mesosystem, and this one

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is a system of microsystems.
So a microsystem that's

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like the parents, the friends,
the teachers, and the mesosystem

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is the interaction between these
two microsystems. And the results

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of those affects the child positively
or negatively. So here's an example

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of the mesosystem. In this post,
you see that there are friends, and you

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put them together with the parents,
like maybe they come over, and if they

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have a negative reaction-- if they
disapprove of the friends, results in

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the top part, where the child will
be sad, they may have a negative

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development. They're pushing
against the parents, maybe have

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negative feelings towards the 
parents, whereas the bottom,

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if the parents approve of the friends,
there's a positive development

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where the child trusts the parents
more, trusts the friends more,

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and this is positive all together.
And so that's an example of the

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mesosystem and how the different 
microsystems interact to affect the child.

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And so that's the mesosystem, it's the
interaction between different microsystems

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that affect the child. The exosystem
is the next step up from being further

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away from the child. And so if you look
at the second line, it describes what the

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exosystem is. It is people or places
that children may not directly interact

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with, but still impact their lives.
And so, an example of this is the

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community or the neighborhood
they grow up in, the government,

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the church, their parents' workplace.
And certain examples.

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And so the example of an exosystem,
the top one is a great example.

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It's a father who is continually
passed up for a promotion by

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an indifferent boss at the workplace,
who may take it out on his child and

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mistreat them at home. And so the 
child never interacted with the parent's

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workplace, but received the results
of the stress and anger from the parent,

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and so that's what an exosystem is. 
And the bottom one talks about a

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mother who leaves to go to the 
military and the child develops

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anxiety, even though she's never
been to her parent's workplace,

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doesn't know why their parents are
leaving. And so that's the result of

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the exosystem. And so the exosystem
is something-- an interaction, setting,

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that does not involve the child but
still affects them.

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Okay, and so the next one is the
macrosystem, and is described

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as the effects of larger principles
defined by the macrosystem.

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And so that's like cultural values,
religious values, customs, and laws,

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and I guess also it includes the
mass media.

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And so an example of that is culture--
culture's a collection of beliefs,

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customs, and art, and people who
live in those customs are expected

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to live certain ways. And so the 
macrosystem affects the child

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because of those cultures,
because of what they're

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expected to live, and that 
affects who they become

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and the development of that
child. So like an example I use

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is the societal culture where
the father's the breadwinner,

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when that's not really the case
it is now, but it still affects the

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child to maybe want to be 
that breadwinner and to

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not allow his wife to provide
for their family.

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And so macrosystem is just the 
effects of culture, religious beliefs,

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their views and lifestyle of a child,
and so it helps develop that child

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to become who they are.

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The last one is the chronosystem,
and this one relates to time,

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and so it's the passage of time
or the time and era that they live in

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that affects the child. Like war-time,
depression, being a 'baby boomer'--

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quote, unquote-- to the gen-Z,
millennials, and that depiction

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affects how the child is seen and
also how they live.

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And like an example of that is
the Great Depression. My grandmother

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lived around the time of the 
Great Depression, right after,

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and she grew up never throwing anything
away, that she'd find every little use

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of every single item that she bought
to use and use until it wore out.

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So that is an example of the chronosystem
and how the time and era that you live in

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affects who you are and what you
become. And so that's a chronosystem,

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is the effect of time on the child, the 
influence of time. And so now that we

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understand all this, how does it affect
our teaching? And one of the articles

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I found, it says, 'by studying the various
ecological systems, Bronfenbrenner's

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ecological systems theory is able to 
demonstrate the diversity of interrelated

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influences on children's development. 
Awareness of the contexts that children

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are in can sensitize us to variations
in the way children may act in

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different settings.' So as a teacher,
as we're aware of how the child's

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development may be influenced
by these different systems, we can

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do a better job in teaching and 
being aware of our students

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so that we can be the best teacher
that we can. That we can give them

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individualized teaching that will 
help the student.

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And so that's what I got from 
Bronfenbrenner's theory,

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and hopefully it helps you as well
in helping to individualize your

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students' teaching to help them
to have the best education and

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development that they can have.

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So here is the bibliography, and
I'm excited to hear what you guys

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have to say, so thank you.