Human Growth and Development / Unit 1 HGD 0046 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model
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The idea
Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems model places the person at the centre of nested systems whose influence becomes less direct moving outward.
In practice
Circles within circles: family and school closest, culture and history farthest out.
Where people slip
Bronfenbrenner had co-founded Head Start, an early-education programme, the decade before. Later revisions made the person an active shaper of each system.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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