Ecological Systems
People and places with whom you have direct contact
Microsystem
Gives us a map for answering questions
Theory
Community and societal structures that allow individuals to do and be; The opportunity to reach your full potential
Social justice
Physical, cognitive, emotional
Learning something just about your ability level means you are working in
The Zone of Proximal Development
Time and generational influences
Chronosystem
The process of using arbitrary factors to classify and group people and things
Social construction
The opportunity to achieve economic change
Social mobility
Time when you are ripe for learning
Cultures, values, and beliefs
Macrosystem
What we know; what is true
Ontology
Change in modern society; Change is permanent; transcendence of time and space
Liquid Modernity
A grumpy baby grows up in a home where the father gets in many fights. The baby grows up to be an adult who also gets in fights. Understanding where this behavior comes from is an issue of:
Nature vs. nurture
Fitting new ideas into an existing scheme is to changing the schema to fit the new ideas as
Systems that affect us indirectly, systems that affect our microsystems
How we know what we know
Epistemology
As qualitative change is to quantitative change
Development is to Growth
Genetics do not follow pre-determined paths, instead genetics are turned on and off in different environments, contributing to the argument of nature vs. nurture
Epigenesis
Learning through observation vs. learning through physically engaging with someone more knowledgable
Modeling vs. guided participation
The interaction of Microsystems
Mesosystem
Ontological insecurity
Modernity tied to physical objects; place, mass, and size
Heavy Modernity
This develops in the pre-frontal cortex and helps with decision-making
Executive function
The theories associated with modeling and guided participation
Social Cognitive Theory and Sociocultural Theory