CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Why is the microsystem the most influential environmental level in a person’s life? Because it is the system where a person has the most direct contact with factors influencing development. Because it involves a person’s cultural environment.

Detailed explanation-2: -The microsystem is the most inuential level of the ecological systems theory. This is the most immediate environmental settings containing the developing child, such as family and school.

Detailed explanation-3: -The microsystem has the most direct influence on childhood development and includes a child’s family, peers, and school.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bronfenbrenner’s structure of environment: The microsystem – this is the layer closest to the child and contains the structures with which the child has direct contact. The microsystem encompasses the relationships and interactions a child has with her immediate surroundings (Berk, 2000).

Detailed explanation-5: -The microsystem refers to the immediate relationships in which a child’s network is directly influenced. Within this system, a child’s direct contact can include the following structures: family members, social/community/school networks and others whom partake in personal interaction with the child.