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A 4 page research paper that, first of all, looks at Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Theory of Development, which argues that if human development is to be fully understood, it must take into consideration an individual's interaction with that environment. The levels of interaction in Bronfenbrenner's model are discussed (roughly 3 pages) and then the writer discusses how to apply this model in discussing the student's personal background (roughly 1 page). Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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is, factors to be considered should include the-- persons interaction with the environment, the persons changing physical and social settings, the relationships among those settings and how the entire process
is affected by the society in which the settings are embedded (Vander Zanden, 2003, p. 8). In order to describe these factors within a logical framework, Bronfenbrenner devises
four levels of ecological influence. The first level is the microsystem, which consists of social relationships and physical settings that form web of interactions that occur for an individual
on a day-to-day basis (Vander Zanden, 2003). Elements making up this level are: school, family, religious observance and neighborhood interactions. The mesosystem is the next level of interaction and this
is made up of the "inter-relationships" that exist "between the various settings in which the developing person is immersed" (Vander Zanden, 2003, p. 9). The next level describes the environment
that is "external" to the developing person, the "exosystem," which is comprised of such elements as extended family; friends of the family; the educational system; governments agencies; legal services and
the mass media (Vander Zanden, 2003, p. 10). The final level of this framework is the "macrosystem," which refers to the "overarching cultural patterns of a society," which are expressed
in "family, educational, economic, political and religious institutions" (Vander Zanden, 2003, p. 10). As this brief description demonstrates, Bronfenbrenners model is grounded in the reality that human beings do
not develop in isolation, but rather this is a process that occurs with the context of their families, schools, communities and within the framework of society at-large (Lang, 2005). Bronfenbrenner
points out that humanity, "...To a greater extent than any other species...(creates) the environments that shape the course of human development" (Lang, 2005, p. 24). In other words, human beings
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