week 6, february 18, thursday

Garcia Coll & Szalacha. The multiple contexts of middle childhood.

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assignment

Bronfenbrenner, U. (1994). Ecological models of human development.

Respond to focus questions in your blog (1 paragraph each) Bronfenbrenner organizes the ecological system

in which students develop into 5 main pieces. Give a brief definition in your own words for each.

Describe one or two examples of things you, personally, can see better with this model.

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new students to te150

7 visitors from Southwest University in Sichuan Province, China

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module 2

Learning and the Urban Environment

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Garcia Coll & Szalacha

Cynthia Garcia Coll, Brown University

Laura Szalacha, Arizona State University

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the big ideas in this piece

My reaction:

interesting and very important ideas

not easy for me to identify the main points

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the big ideas in this piece

Students’ learning and development can be better understood if we can see it as part of the ecology in which they live

Most aspects of this ecology can have positive, negative, or positive & negative effects

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ecological perspectives on student development

What are the differences between an individual and ecological perspective on student learning and development?

How does this change in perspective alter what can be seen?

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an ecological perspective on learning

Ecology: the study of living things that focuses on how a living thing is interrelated with other living things and its physical environment

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an ecological perspective on learning

Ecological perspective on learning: a perspective that looks at how students’ learning is interrelated with other people and other aspects of their environment

Why “interrelated”, not just “related”?

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two sides of the same coin

Most aspects of a student’s ecology can be seen as positively, negatively, or both positively and negatively related to their learning and development.

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two sides of the same coin

Terms Garcia Coll use to describe the positives and negatives

benefits & risks

promoting and inhibiting

assets & deficiencies

Similar terms

affordances & constraints

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Inhibiting and promoting school environments

According to Garcia Coll, students in segregated schools can face serious challenges, but may also experience it as a “promoting” environment.

What did she mean?

What examples from your own experience can you see of a particular quality of a school environment be both inhibiting and promoting?

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environments

Garcia Coll identifies three environments that may promote or inhibit student development

School

Neighborhood

Popular media

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Neighborhoods: What do you see?

Consider the city you grew up in, or one that you’re quite familiar with

What were the different neighborhoods? What salient similarities and differences do you see?

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