Environmental Systems In My Life

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The paper refers to Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory of development that the developing person is embedded in a series of environmental systems that interact with one another and with the individual to influence development. The writer applies this theory to his personal life and his growth and development in his career. The writer discusses his dream of becoming a licensed professional counselor and how it will continue the series of environmental systems that have brought him to where he is today.

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"My life has been a series of interconnected systems. My mother and father immigrated to the United States from Cuba. An unusual couple, my mother had been a teacher in Cuba, while my father was functionally illiterate. My father emigrated to America, and once he had found a job and a place to live, he sent for my mother to join him. They lived in Yonkers, New York. My mother and father represent my first environmental system."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Duncan, Steve. Family Matters: Five Principles of Effective Parenting. Accessed via the internet on 7/12/07 at http://www.montana.edu/wwwpb/home/319famly.html
• Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979). The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
• Bronfenbrenner, U. (1989). Ecological systems theory. In: R. Vasta (Eds), Six theories of child development: Revised formulations and current issues (pp. 187-250). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
• Bronfenbrenner, U. &Ceci, S. J. (1994). Nature-nurture reconceptualized in developmental perspective - a bioecological model. Psychological Review, 101, 568-586.
• Bronfenbrenner U. The ecology of human development: experiments by nature and design. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press; 1979

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