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Connecting The Campus To Children

Connecting the Campus to Children

Mary Ann Marchel, Faculty LiaisonMolly Minkkinen, UECH FacultyPaul Deputy, Dean of College of EducationLeann Scalia, Child Care Director

exosystem

Macrosystem

Exosystem

Mesosystem

Microsystem

Bronfenbrenner, 1996

Microsystem

The microsystem includes the complex of relations between the developing person and the immediate environment.

• Child

• Peers

• Child care staff

• UECH faculty

• UECH student (practicum and student teachers)

• Eclectic curriculum

• Family

Mesosystem

The mesosystem embraces other specific formal and informal social structures that do not themselves contain the developing person, but impinge upon or encompass the immediate settings in which that child is found, and thereby influence, delimit, or even determine what goes on there.

• ECSE support services

• Mental health services• Health consultant

• Family connection• Home• Early childhood special education

• Head start• IEP/IFSP related services

• Faculty liaison

• Auxiliary services

The exosystem refers to situations, settings, and events that have a bearing on the child’s development, but in which the developing child does not actually play a direct role.

Exosystem

• Administrative at the college and university levels

•Relationships with community based agencies

•Collaboration with academic units from across the university

Macrosystem

The macrosystem refers to the overarching institutional patterns of the culture or subculture, such as the economic, social, legal, educational, and political systems in which the micro-, meso-, and exosystems are the concrete manifestations.

•Statewide initiatives

•University of Minnesota initiatives

•Media attention to economic feasibility studies

•Nationwide push for academic “rigor”

• Sociopolitical influences

“Cosmosystem”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams and endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours” Henry David Thoreau