Ecological level | Definition | Examples |
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Microsystem | Situations in which the practitioner is physically present and has face-to-face contact with influential others | Children Co-workers Caregivers and families Social worker, etc. |
Mesosystem | Relationships between the Microsystems; connections between situations | Team connections Multi-/inter-professional work such as children and caregivers, families and site leaders, and families and a social worker |
Exosystem | Settings in which practitioners do not participate but in which significant decisions affecting them are made | Local/regional body authority Parents’ workplace, such as the DOE and Early Learn in NYC |
Macrosystem | ‘Blueprints’ for a particular society; assumptions about ‘how things should be done’ | Values, shared assumptions, broad ideological patterns of a particular culture; socio-economic and political context, such as domestic and international research organizations including OECD |
Chronosystem | Developments of the ecological system over time | Socio-historical context such as racism, long-held feminized profession of ECCE, Covid-19 pandemic |