Assignment: Bronfenbrenner and life during COVID-19 pandemic
Assignment: Consider our own experience of living under social distancing during this COVID-19 pandemic.

a) explain what each of the systems is, so I can tell if you understand it.

b) How do the different systems come together in our city to shape how children  will be affected by the pandemic.  Focus your writing on their emotional development: this would include matters of mental health, such as fears and anxieties they may have about it; emotional regulation in terms of how they respond to the limitations put upon them by the social distancing and disease prevention measures.

and /or

cognitive development: in this matter think of what they are learning about disease, contamination, etc.  and also how they keep up with school learning.

I think these two areas of development are the most relevant to the present crisis. But if you’d prefer, feel free to look at their physical or social relationships instead.

You may find it helpful to look up emotional regulation in chapter 10, or skim what chapter 8 says about academic achievement to give you ideas of what to think about in terms of how different levels of culture contribute to the child’s development and have an effect o  how they come through this. But this assignment is really about understanding Bronfenbrenner, so you don’t need to be too complex in how you describe the issues. you can make it explicit, listing the systems levels and giving an example of that level when thinking of what helps or hinders children from coping with the current situation. How does the microsystem help or hinder? How does the mesosystem help or hinder, etc.

Please focus on a particular age range of childhood when you do this assignment, rather than mix ages.  Are you thinking of a preschool child, a grade-school child (6-12); a teenager (13-18)?