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Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems

Urie Bronfenbrenner pictured a child growing up inside a set of nested environments — rings that reach from the people the child touches every day out to the culture and the sweep of time. Tap any ring, or the child at the centre, to explore it.

A child's whole world

Tap a ring — or the child at the centre
Bronfenbrenner's ecological systemstap a ring to explore