EDUC 3P40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lev Vygotsky
20 Sep 2016
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Microsystem: closest, direct contact, home, school, work, relationships are bidirectional. Mesosystem: interconnected microsystem, ex. relationships between a child s parents and their school teacher. Exosystem: a setting that does not involve the personal as an active participant but still effects them ex. soldier who is a parent of a son or daughter. Macrosystem: where person lives, ex. military child, cultural environment. Chronosystem: dimension of time in relationship to development ex. death of a different effects children differently than it effects a teenager. The role of culture and social interactions are imperative to cognitive development. The external model of overlapping spheres recognizes that the three major contexts in which students learn and grow-the family, the school and the community-may be drawn together or pushed apart.
