Bronfenbrenner was a Russian born American developmental psychologist He is known for his ecological systems theory of child development. This theory present the child development within the context of relationship system that comprise the child environment.www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxHLKkrYaZ62adpr47kr8w?view_as=subscriber

1. ECOLOGICAL
THEORY
BRONFENBRENNER

2. Bronfenbrenner was a Russian born American
developmental psychologist
He is known for his ecological systems theory of
child development

4. • This theory present the child
development within the
context of relationship system
that comprise the child
environment.
• BRONFENBRENNER’S
MODEL IS ALSO KNOWN
AS BIOECOLOGICAL
SYSTEM

5. Levels OF
BRONFENBRENNER’S
BIOECOLOGICAL
MODEL

6. Microsystems
• It is called immediate environment.it is closet
to the child in which he has direct contact
with others.
• It includes one’s family, school ,friends
,neighborhood, care giver and daycare center

7. Mesosystem
• This level serve as the relationships between
two or more microsystems .In this level
different microsystems of child interact with
each other and have indirect effect on child.
They are called connections.

8. • Example:
• Interactions between the parents and teachers
• Interactions between the home and school
• The parents and health services
• The community and the church

9. Exosystem
• It is the level in which child has no direct
participation or involvement, but it affects
his development.
Example:
• Father promotion at workplace, mass
media, city government

10. The Macrosystem
• It includes actual environment in which child lives and all other
systems that affect him such as cultural and social structural elements
of the environment that shape human development.
• Example:
• Economic system, political system, cultural values

11. The
Chronosystem
It includes change over time not only in human
but also in environment in which human lives.
Big events in the world that help psychologist
understand the affect it will impact in a
person’s development through time.
• Example:
• A family through a divorce a nation going to
war
• Changes in family structure (birth, death)
• Change in socioeconomic status