CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The chronosystem – this system encompasses the dimension of time as it relates to a child’s environments. Elements within this system can be either external, such as the timing of a parent’s death, or internal, such as the physiological changes that occur with the aging of a child.

Detailed explanation-2: -Definition. The chronosystem is made up of the environmental events and transitions that occur throughout a child’s life, including any sociohistorical events. The chronosystem is one of five systems in Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory.

Detailed explanation-3: -The chronosystem considers how and when major events occur and how the timing of these events can influence a person’s life.

Detailed explanation-4: -The overarching chronosystem represents the temporal changes of a child, his or her experiences, and his or her environments. These changes could arise from within the child such as the physiological changes that occur with the growth of a child, or be imposed externally such as the timing of a parent’s death.

Detailed explanation-5: -Chronosystem: The patterning of environmental events and transitions over the life course, as well as sociohistorical circumstances. For example, divorces is one transition. Researchers have found that the negative effects of divorce on children often peak in the first year after the divorce.