Child Development in Children's Environment

Running head: CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
Childhood development
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CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT 2
Introduction
Bronfenbrenner, (2018) argues that, various environmental systems contribute to the way
human beings develops. The known psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner illustrate how human
nature have different behaviors when they are with the family members and when they are away
such as in school. To assist people to understand how the environment influence child
development, Bronfenbrenner brings out five central environmental systems to illustrate how
each factor contribute to the behavior of the child in different places
The five systems in the ecological model.
The theory of ecological system, claim that children meet multiple environments while growing
up that determines their behaviors in various ways. The five systems comprise of the macro
system, microsystem, exosystem, chronosystem, and mesosystem according Burns, Warmbold-
Brann & Zaslofsky, (2015).
a. The exosystem
Hope & Spencer, (2017) says that, exosystem refers to the environment whereby there is
a connection between a situation where one is actively participating in the matters taking place
around him or her and a case where the individual does not take part in any role. Considering a
family having a child and the child has a strong connection between him and her mother as
compared to the father if at one time the mother finds a job abroad and leaves the child with the
father, it results to a common disagreement between the child and the father. However, as time
goes one may find that the bond between the child and the father can continue to grow strong.
b. Microsystem