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An Ecological Perspective to Understanding Exceptionality

An Ecological Perspective to Understanding Exceptionality. Márcio Padilha EDUC 205 – Meyerhoeffer College of Southern Idaho Spring 2007. Learning and Development do not happen in vacuum. Contemporary thinking views children and adults as part of a larger social scheme

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An Ecological Perspective to Understanding Exceptionality

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  1. An Ecological Perspective to Understanding Exceptionality Márcio Padilha EDUC 205 – Meyerhoeffer College of Southern Idaho Spring 2007

  2. Learning and Development do not happen in vacuum • Contemporary thinking views children and adults as part of a larger social scheme • They influence and are influence d by circumstances and environment • Such context is referred to as “ecology”

  3. Ecology • Looks at the interrelationship and interactions of individuals within environments • Considers behavior as a function of person-environment interactions • Attempts to understand the relationships between the immediate environments in which an individual develops the larger context of those setting

  4. Ecological Perspective • Professionals must have an appreciation for the student’s total environment and social context • Home • School • Community • Larger Society • Individuals encountered within those various settings

  5. According to Bronfenbrenner… • The contexts in which a person develops are nested one inside another, analogically similar to a set of Russian stacking dolls

  6. According to Bronfenbrenner… • The environments in which people develop are: • Microsystems • Immediate environments in which individuals develop • Mesosystems • Relationships between various microsystems • Exosystems • Social structures that influence the development of the individual with or without the individual’s direct role in the social system • Macrosystem • Ideological, cultural and institutional contexts in which the preceding systems are embedded

  7. Summing it up • The ecological context provides the contemporary view that an individual’s family is a system within other systems • The ecological context provides a framework for understanding the world of children and young adults • The ecological context asserts • The importance of professionals seeing each student within the context of his/her family • The importance of seeing that family’s interrelations and interactions with other larger social systems

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