What Is Bronfenbrenner's Five Levels Of Child Development

The purpose of this paper is to think of a particular time in my childhood and apply Bronfenbrenner’s five systems to that particular time. Urie Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory in child development suggest that five levels of the environment simultaneously influences us as children. Bronfenbrenner believes that we cannot fully understand the phenomenon of continuity and bio-psychological characteristics of a child without considering how we are influence by each level of our environment. The 5 levels he mentions are, microsystem, Mesosystem, Exosystem, Macrosystem and Chronosystem (Feldman 2011). I grew up on the island of Montserrat which is a British territory, where the environment helped shape who I am today, I moved to the United states when I was
I didn’t have a father in my life so my mother was the one that took care of me, not having a father in the picture was not a good experience for me, I think this is why I was so close with my mother. My brothers I could remember were always there willing to teach what they knew, there were times when I wanted to be like my older brothers. I was younger than they were but we would socialize like we were friends we, had a good relationship, through my brothers I learned how to act in school, all of those social interactions were crucial to my development. My family had the same problems like every other family but I felt protected surrounded by them. My mother and grandfather were always arguing, I would try to defend my mother of course. At age 10 I could remember going to school, I was already tough because of what I learned from my brothers, I got in all sorts of fights with the other students but school gave me the best memories I could remember, for I had a lot of friends