The Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model

Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model The Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model was developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner’s, and asserts that a child’s or any individual’s development is directly influenced by the environment around them. In his model, Bronfenbrenner’s identifies five levels of an individual’s environment, which affect personal development of that person. These levels are microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem and chronosystem. The microsystem encompasses the individual’s surrounding which the person is in direct contact with. Examples of this level are family, schools, peers and home. Interactions between different aspects of an individual form the mesosystem. This asserts that the microsystems do not operate independently, but rather interact with one another to bring desirable results. An example of mesosystem is where parents of a student actively participate in school activities geared towards developing the student (Rosa & Tudge, 2013). Exosystem on the other affects an individual, but does not actively involve that person. An example is a situation where a student’s father works for months away from him, …show more content…
Some of the common childcare options are hiring a nanny, centre-based or family based. However, regardless of the childcare option parents choose, there are inherent factors that contribute to development of the child. Therefore, the childcare quality depends on such factors as qualifications and competence of the caregivers, types of childcare programs offered, and individual attributes and needs of the child and the family seeking the childcare. However, this paper proposes centre-based approach to raising the adopted child. In the centre-based setting, there are many caregivers, more and sophisticated childcare facilities, many children and different age groups. These attributes expose the child to an environment which enhances positive development (Staab,