1. Connecting the Campus to Children`
Connecting the Campus to Children
Connecting The Campus To Children
Mary Ann Marchel, Faculty Liaison
Molly Minkkinen, UECH Faculty
Paul Deputy, Dean of College of Education
Leann Scalia, Child Care Director

2. Macrosystem Exosystem Mesosystem Microsystem exosystem
Mary Ann will open with background and how ecological perspective serves as a lens through which to describe the development of the univeristy of minnesota Duluth Children's Place
exosystem
Bronfenbrenner, 1996

3. Microsystem
The microsystem includes the complex of relations between the developing person and the immediate environment.
Child
Peers
Child care staff
Leann whats unique about UMD's microsystemic units
Eclectic curriculum
UECH faculty
UECH student (practicum and student teachers)
Family

4. Mesosystem
The mesosystem embraces other specific formal and informal social structures that do not themselves contain the developing person, but impinge upon or encompass the immediate settings in which that child is found, and thereby influence, delimit, or even determine what goes on there.
ECSE support services
Mental health services
Health consultant
Molly
Family connection
Home
Early childhood special education
Head start
IEP/IFSP related services
Faculty liaison
Auxiliary services

5. Exosystem
The exosystem refers to situations, settings, and events that have a bearing on the child’s development, but in which the developing child does not actually play a direct role.
Administrative at the college and
university levels
Relationships with community
based agencies
Paul
Collaboration with academic units
from across the university

6. Macrosystem
The macrosystem refers to the overarching institutional patterns of the culture or subculture, such as the economic, social, legal, educational, and political systems in which the micro-, meso-, and exosystems are the concrete manifestations.
Statewide initiatives
Macro
McKnight--Molly, Ready 4 K, Head Start
University Intiatives (Bruininks, Children Youth and Familyies Consortium
Economic influences...Art Rolnicks economic feasability study has influenced thinking about impact of EC Programs
Nationwide push for academic
“rigor”
Media attention to economic
feasibility studies
University of Minnesota initiatives
Sociopolitical influences

7. “Cosmosystem”

8. “If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams and endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours”
Henry David Thoreau