Harlem's Ecological Model Analysis

Family of Origin: Geoffrey Canada Geoffrey Canada is an educator, social activist and an author. He was the president of the Harlem’s Children Zone since 1990s. The goal of Harem’s Children Zone based of the article from Urban Faith: to prove that poor children, especially poor black children, can succeed in big numbers. Success means good reading scores, grades, and graduation rates for average students, not just the smartest or most motivated or the ones with involved parents. Canada believes that people of colors with a low-income family background can success. There are many injustice towards children of color and Canada was able to relate this injustice because he had felt those injustice and wanted to be able to help out those that doesn’t …show more content…
There is five system in the Bronfenbrenner model: Microsystem, Mesosystem, Exosystem, Marcosystem, and Chronosystem. According to the article: Ecological Models of Human Development, Microsystem is in a face-to-face setting, such as family, peers and more to engage in the pattern of activities, social roles and interpersonal relations with particular physical, social…and activity in the immediate environment. Mesosytem involves the linkages and processes taking place in two or more settings containing the developing person, such as the relations between hone and school. Exosystem comprises the linkages and processes taking place between two or more setting, at least one setting doesn’t contain developing person, which is events that indirectly influence processes within the immediate setting in which the developing person lives, such as for a child: parent’s workplace and home. Marcosystem consists of the overreaching pattern of the three other systems (micro-, exo-, and meso-) and this system describes the culture in which individual lives. Culture contexts include developing and industrial countries, socioeconomic status, poverty, and …show more content…
My parents are immigrants from China, and they arrive to America in the 1990s. They work two jobs to maintain support for our family and we lived in a small one room, one living room, one bathroom and a kitchen apartment. Taking care of 4 children isn’t easy especially while working. My parents are willing to work two jobs to support us and try to give all type of support for our education. Canada was willing to take care a family that he can only support so little. He was giving his best to support his family just like my parents. And family comes first compared to any other thing that occurs in our