Hi this reply is for Sam F I can’t get out of this section from my phone sorry if it confuses anyone. Perhaps that is why Bronfenbrenner defines human development in such a specific way, a scientific way so as to encompass the vastness of possible influences that affect ones life. It is interesting to note that his first definition suggests that a child’s growth is affected by their relationships in a given setting. We have been offered a variety of readings and engaged in formal and informal learning experiences from the various courses and on our trip to Reggio on the concept of relationships and their importance in the educative practice. I appreciate you noting that children are “social being[s] in all the richness and variety of its forms.” I also agree that we are all connected in our humanness, in our innate sense of ethical endeavors, in our connection to the environments we create in the classroom and ones that are are created within our communities. When we help guide and scaffold experiences within our schools, with our families and with the world beyond those walls, we are not only preparing children for a future of service but are showing them that they are already part of the greater good. If we honor their contributions, thoughts and actions as young citizens as meaningful now, they will perhaps carry with them a greater understanding and respect for the many systems of which they are an important part.
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On May 8, 2018, at 12:00 AM, Stephanie Leen stephslo17@aol.com wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Hypothesis no-reply@hypothes.is To: stephslo17 stephslo17@aol.com Sent: Mon, May 7, 2018 07:29 PM Subject: samforeman has replied to your annotation
samforeman has replied to your annotation on “Bronfenbrenner_1977_Toward an Experimental Ecology of Human Development.pdf”:
On 07 May at 00:51 Stephslo17 commented:
Bronfenbrenner was influenced by theorists like Leontiev, who favored the idea of trying to understand ways children can learn, transform and develop - broadening their potential for higher learning. By using Leontiev's idea as a springboard which suggests that children are capable of becoming more complex as their base of knowledge expands one can perhaps better understand why. Bronfenbrenner further suggested that the biological, psychological and environmental factors affect how the child can become not only "what he not yet is" but what he already is in conjunction with what he can become. It reminds me of Freire's notion unfinishedness. We are programmed to be learners and continually become what we not yet are. On 07 May at 23:29 samforeman replied:
This reminds me of a quote I found a little while ago. "that realise a person’s actual life in the objective world by which he is surrounded, his social being in all the richness and variety of its forms" (Leont’ev 1977). I feel that there is so much "space" that relate to a childs devlopment that are not engaged with. This concept makes me feel more imporant in life because wheather we believe it or not everything is connected to one another and those conenctions make us who we are. View the thread and respond.
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